cybercriminals

According to Kaspersky Lab, the percentage of spam in email traffic in June was up 1.4 percentage points and averaged at 71.1 per cent. Malicious attachments were found in 1.8 …

Arbor Networks released data on DDoS attack trends for the first half of 2013. The data shows that DDoS continues to be a global threat, with a clear increase in attack size, …

The FTC has moved to shut down an international network of scammers that sent millions of unwanted text messages to consumers, using the lure of “free” gift cards …

FireHost announced its latest web application attack statistics, which track the prevalence of four distinct types of cyberattacks that pose the most serious threat to …

Keeping their botnet’s C&C centers online is crucial for bot herders, so that they can keep taking advantage of the computers they zombified. But given that cyber …

Over the past 16 years, sensitive data and the complex IT infrastructure within Global 2000 enterprises used to create, distribute, and protect it has grown exponentially. …

American Express-themed phishing emails are never out of circulation, but it pays to know which new (or recycled) angle is being used at the moment. The latest one to hit …

As expected, news of the new birth in the British Royal Family has become a perfect lure in malware delivery schemes. ThreatTrack has spotted an email titled “The Royal …

Pro-Assad hacker group the Syrian Electronic Army claims to have breached the back-up database of Tango, the company behind the popular eponymous app, and to have exfiltrated …

Last week we saw that a ransomware scheme does not need to involve actual malware, as clever cyber crooks leveraged browsers’ “restore from crash” feature to …

Retailers suffer twice as many SQL injection attacks as other industries, according to Imperva. Additionally, these attacks were more intense, both in terms of number of …

Players of the popular Combat Arms first-person shooter are being targeted by online crooks via the in-game chat system, warns Chris Boyd. They crooks offer what is supposedly …