cybercriminals

Sometimes it seems that every legitimate service offered online can be misused by phishers, scammers and cyber criminals in general. Free mail services are abused to send out …

An Internet scam that targets English-language markets and costs victims on average $875, according to Microsoft. The scam works by criminals posing as computer security …

A German man has been convicted to a 34-month prison sentence and has been ordered to pay some 350,000 Euros to the companies he blackmailed by threatening to take down their …

If the information the NYT has received about the Citigroup breach is correct, and the intrusion was made possible by the exploitation of a vulnerability so frequent and …

LulzSec has struck again over the weekend, and this time the targets were the official website of the US Senate and the Bethesda Softworks’ computer network. Officials …

More than one-third of respondents to an Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) survey were repeat victims of phishing attacks that resulted in a successful establishment of …

The International Monetary Fund’s systems have been breached by cyber attackers believed to be linked to a unnamed foreign government. According to the NYT, the hack …

When infecting PCs, online criminals are increasingly benefiting from uninstalled updates for browsers and their components. Research carried out by G Data SecurityLabs …

BitDefender identified a series of scams targeting music festival goers, sporting event fans and holidaymakers this summer. The top summer-themed spam messages for 2011 relate …

Citigroup has finally made public the fact that it suffered a breach into its systems in May and that the names of some 200,000 customers, their account numbers and contact …

Microsoft believes that the individuals behind the (still crippled) Rustock botnets are located in Russia, so it placed advertisements in the The Moscow News and the Delovoy …

Badware is a defining challenge for individuals, businesses, and governments throughout the world. Cybercriminals have developed a mature badware economy in which individual …