A week in security (January 3 – 9)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Ransomware attacks Finalsite, renders 8,000 school sites unreachable for days Patchwork APT caught in its own web Sophisticated phishing scheme spent years robbing authors of their unpublished work Google and Facebook fined $240 million for making cookies hard to...

Purple Fox Rootkit Can Now Spread Itself to Other Windows Computers

Purple Fox , a Windows malware previously known for infecting machines by using exploit kits and phishing emails, has now added a new technique to its arsenal that gives it worm-like propagation capabilities. The ongoing campaign makes use of a "novel spreading technique via indiscriminate port...