cybercriminals

Crypto-ransomware continues to be a very effective way for cyber crooks to “earn” serious money: the method is so lucrative that with a single campaign, the crooks …

Millions of people fell for Facebook scams in 2014. Though security experts, companies and tech-savvy users guard against Facebook cyber attacks, many unwary users continue to …

Tens of millions of dollars, credit cards and intellectual property stolen by a new group of cyber criminals. Group-IB and Fox IT, in a joint research effort, released a …

In the continuous see-sawing that spammers and malware peddlers perform between sending out emails with malicious links and those with malicious attachments, the former method …

Over 200,000 Facebook users have so far fallen prey to a like-farming scam promising two free Audi R8 cars, and thousands are joining the victim list each hour, according to …

Most of us are familiar with the “triangle’ project management model, which highlights the constraints on delivering results in projects. The three corners of the …

The popularity and pervasiveness of Zeus/Zbot has made it almost a synonym for banking malware, but there are unfortunately many more types of malicious software that allow …

McAfee announced its annual “12 Scams of the Holidays” list, which includes the most popular ways cybercriminals scam consumers during the holiday season as they …

The takedown of online drug bazaar Silk Road 2.0 and the arrest of its alleged operator was only the first overt evidence of the success of a bigger law enforcement action. …

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 …