cybercriminals

Hackers in the UK could be in for a world of problems, as the UK government is looking to hand out life-long prison sentences to those who are found guilty of organizing and …

Malware creation has broken all records during this period, with a figure of more than 15 million new samples, and more than 160,000 new samples appearing every day, according …

Malicious attachments in April came disguised as e-greetings and notifications about faxes. In the case of the former, alleged Easter greetings turned out to be the …

CYREN published its April 2014 Internet Threats Trend Report. Among its findings, they revealed a 73 percent increase in the number of phishing attacks aimed at PayPal users. …

Hundreds of computer systems have been infected with the latest instant messaging Trojan. Bitdefender has spotted an increasing wave of infections in the past week in …

Browlock is the most basic approach to ransomware there is: there is no actual malware that blocks the victims’ computer or encrypts its contents, there is only a Web …

Symantec researchers are once again warning about a sophisticated and persistent phishing campaign targeting Google users. The victims are hit with fake emails sporting a …

MiniDuke – the extremely small and highly customized Asembler-based backdoor used in the past to target mostly government entities and institutions around the world …

Online Trust Alliance (OTA) Executive Director and President Craig Spiezle testified today before the U.S. Senate’s Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Permanent …

Cybercriminals continuously discover more ways to successfully target new outlets for financial theft, according to Trend Micro. Greed is motivating cybercriminals to take a …

In its latest Security Intelligence Report, Microsoft has noted that malware designed to make money for the attacker via click fraud, performing Bitcoin mining, and …

Every now and then, phishers mount campaigns that simultaneously target users of different online services. This time the lures are different: access to a document that is …