cybercriminals

A massive DNS cache poisoning attack attempting to infect users trying to access popular websites is currently under way in Brazil, warns Kaspersky Lab expert Fabio Assolini. …

An email notification supposedly sent by PayPal saying that an intrusion into the user’s account has been detected is currently hitting inboxes around the world. …

A hacker’s pay-walled site on which he offers administrative access to a number of military, education and government websites for sale, has been hacked by a rival …

As the percentage of fraudulent emails received by users in the third quarter of 2011 has risen sharply and they represented 2 percent of all received spam emails, Kaspersky …

The recent takedown of the Kelihos botnet by Microsoft has received a lot of attention, despite the fact that the botnet is rather small (around 41,000 computers located …

The Romanian hacker who repeatedly hacked eBay servers, accessed parts of its sites that were off-limits to users and even accessed a number of eBay accounts has been handed …

Websites loaded with malware increased a massive 89 percent in the third quarter compared to Q2 2011. According to an IID report, the most impersonated organizations include …

In the third quarter of 2011 alone, five million new malware samples were created. In addition, Trojans set a record for becoming the preferred category for cybercriminals to …

There has been a decline in rogue AV schemes lately, and researchers chalk it up to a combination of law enforcement and security community efforts and an increased coverage …

An installer for the Duqu Trojan has been discovered by CrySys, the Hungarian firm that initially discovered the threat, and the file has shed some light onto how the threat …

Two Ukrainians who admitted to have been the ringleaders of a criminal ring bent on stealing money from online bank accounts have finally been sentenced to four years and …

Imperva announced the availability of SecureSphere 9.0 and introduced ThreatRadar Fraud Prevention Services and defined a new Web security architecture that not only …