cybercriminals

As the value of Bitcoin continues to rise, a lot of people are trying to cash in on the craze. Some do it legally, by getting their own machines to perform the calculations …

Fake PayPal emails claiming recipients will have limited access to their account because they didn’t provide enough information have been landing for the last few days …

Kaspersky Lab has recorded several thousand attempts to infect computers used for online banking with a malicious program that its creators claim can attack “any bank in …

A cybercriminal gang based in Nigeria has been setting up phishing and 419 scam campaigns as well as delivering information-stealing malware to targets around the world, say …

A piece of malware masquerading as an AutoCAD component with the goal of making systems vulnerable to later exploits has been analyzed by Trend Micro researchers. Unlike the …

Motherboard used the deep web to find out just how easy it was to buy guns, drugs, and other contraband online. VICE Germany editor Tom Littlewood talks with cryptology …

Ross William Ulbricht, the alleged 29-year-old founder of black market drug website Silk Road, has been denied bail by US District Judge Kevin Fox in the Southern District of …

McAfee Labs found new efforts to circumvent digital signature app validation on Android-based devices. The McAfee Labs team identified a new family of mobile malware that …

The rising popularity of Bitcoin hasn’t gone unnoticed by online scammers, and according to ThreatTrack’s Chris Boyd, they have started tricking users into …

Creating a Facebook page, making it popular and followed by many by using a number of approaches, then finally selling it to the highest bidder that’s interested in …

Users of Silverlight, Microsoft’s answer to Adobe Flash, are in danger of having malware installed on their computers and being none the wiser, as an exploit for a …

Not ones to miss an opportunity, malware peddlers are piggybacking on the fact that Facebook is blocking the accounts of certain users and demanding they change their …