We cover five hot topics in computer security: ransomware, botnets, surveillance, phishing and GDPR.

Spora ransomware is back and it’s trying to confuse antivirus products and email filters.

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including Citizen Lab’s latest report, WannaCry hitting Honda, GhostHook, and Fireball.

The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) identified ransomware as one of 2016’s top threats, but a relatively small number of attacks were reported.

Join us for the last webinar in our Security SOS Week – we take a look at ransomware… and all the other malware nasties that roam the net.

Carmaker Honda announced Wednesday that it was forced to shut down production at one of its Japanese plants earlier this week after it was hit by the WannaCry ransomware.

Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news

The SMBv1 file-sharing protocol abused by the NSA’s EternalBlue exploit to spread WannaCry ransomware is being disabled in the upcoming Windows Fall Creators Update, or Redstone 3.

Proofpoint has connected the University College London ransomware to Mole, spread by AdGholas malvertising campaigns and the Astrum Exploit Kit.

The bad guys are using old tricks to hide very modern nasty surprises in Word documents. We take a look at how they’re doing that