cybercriminals

Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg has been found guilty of hacking into the mainframe of CSC, a company tasked with keeping and handling sensitive information …

Nearly five years after the day he was indicted, Sergei Nicolaevich Tsurikov has finally been sentenced for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and computer intrusion for his …

A new scam is taking advantage of Emma Watson’s growing popularity and using the Harry Potter star as bait to spread malware on Facebook, warns antivirus solutions …

The Selfmite Android SMS worm is back, and this new version is both more dangerous and more widespread that the initial one. AdaptiveMobile researchers, who discovered both …

A group of hackers has successfully leveraged the recently discovered Bash Shellshock vulnerability to compromise a number of servers belonging to Yahoo, Lycos and Winzip, and …

An IT worker from Scotland who is also an “eBay PowerSeller” has discovered an eBay listing for an iPhone that was rigged to redirect potential buyers to a spoofed …

As the day of the release of Apple’s iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus draws near, scammers have expectedly begun using the new devices as a lure in Facebook scams. As usual, …

Even if you never had to deal personally with “Windows support” scammers, chances are someone you know did or you have heard about these type of scams. These …

Phishers have started employing AES encryption to disguise the real nature of phishing sites from automatic phishing detection tools. This is the latest obfuscating trick in …

California-based domain registrar and web hosting firm Namecheap has been targeted by hackers, the company’s VP of hosting Matt Russell warned on Monday, and said that …

Malware is still being created at the record levels reached in the previous quarter: 15 million new samples were generated, at an average rate of 160,000 every day, according …

69 percent of IT professionals experience phishing attacks at least once a week, with customer data cited most often as the type of data attacked, followed by financial …