cybercriminals

Ransomware targeting Italian-speaking users is being served from compromised websites via malicious JavaScript code, warns Total Defense’s Rossano Ferraris. The users …

Fake Facebook notifications about changes in users’ account information have been hitting inboxes and delivering malware to unwary users, warn BarracudaLabs researchers. …

PhonepayPlus, the regulatory body for all premium rate phone-paid services in the UK, has ordered two Amsterdam-based companies to pay a fine of 100,000 pounds each and to …

In 2011, the most significant evolution in the threat landscape was the use of malware networks, or malnets, to launch highly dynamic Web-based attacks, according to Blue Coat …

The fastest growing malware categories in the second half of 2011 were PPI (Pay-Per-Installs) and information stealers that target user credentials enabling the theft of key …

As announced by Kaspersky Lab researchers and confirmed by Microsoft, the C&C and backup infrastructure of the original Kelihos/Hlux botnet is still down after their …

Hoaxes claiming that Facebook will shut down or stop being a free service are regularly propagated through the social network, raising panic with users who haven’t …

The developers of the Horde open source software have issued a statement warning its users that a one of their FTP servers was discovered to have been breached and some files …

Internet users are at risk from the rapid growth in software security flaws – specifically end-point vulnerabilities. Businesses should be doing far more to help …

While consumers remain concerned about identity theft, there are some common misconceptions about the risk of preparing and submitting their tax documents, and many are …

Digital Assurance warned that mobile communications operating over radio systems such as GSM, WiMax and DECT are likely to become more heavily targeted as Software Defined …

When the Stuxnet computer worm damaged the Iranian nuclear program in 2010, the public got a small glimpse into modern cyber warfare – without truly realizing the scope …