cybercriminals

An active scareware campaign pushing a fake version of the popular freeware spyware removal tool AdwCleaner is targeting Windows users and is trying to get them to fork over …

Security threats to mobile and residential devices and attacks on communications networks rose in 2014, threatening personal and corporate privacy and information. …

28.8 percent of phishing attacks last year aimed to steal financial data from consumers, according to a new report by Kaspersky Lab. The results show how cybercriminals have …

PayPal-themed phishing campaigns are nothing new, but they are more and more legitimate-looking as time goes by. Researchers with OpenDNS Labs have spotted one such campaign …

French companies are the latest targets of cyber crooks wielding the CTB Locker (aka Critroni) ransomware. The emails look like their coming from an employee of the target …

Online gamers are often targeted by cyber thieves, as their game accounts hold coveted items and/or funds to buy them. In order to gain access, the crooks usually set up …

After deliberating for three and a half hours, a jury has found Ross Ulbricht guilty of all seven counts he was accused of, which means he could potentially spend the rest of …

Bitdefender is warning Microsoft Office users against the emergence of a new spam campaign that is looking to trick antispam filters in order to allow spam to pass freely into …

According to the results of a study performed by researchers from the University at Buffalo, “information-rich” emails that alter the recipients’ cognitive …

A spam campaign revealing the 10 Hottest Snapchats is a new entry to the long list of Facebook scams flooding the social network. Bitdefender’s Labs have now blacklisted …

Over the past few months, AdaptiveMobile has tracked an increase of spam complexity on messaging apps, such as WhatsApp, in the United States, Europe and India, and expects …

Oracle is warning users about malware sites actively offering Oracle patches for download. “It has come to our attention that there are non-Oracle sites offering Oracle …