cybercriminals

In the wake of last week’s compromise of 250,000 Twitter accounts comes another threat to Twitter users: phishing messages – both DMs and tweets – that lure …

Malicious Android apps able to infect and set up a backdoor on PCs running pre-Windows 7 operating systems have been recently spotted by researchers of several security …

Whether you decide to give flowers, chocolates or something a little more unusual as the perfect symbol of your affection this Valentine’s Day, make sure you take extra …

Symantec and Microsoft have teamed up to take down the Bamital botnet, and are currently in the process of warning users infected with the Trojan on how to remove it from …

The effectiveness of exploit kits has made them malware peddlers’ preferred way of distributing their malicious wares. The Blackhole exploit kit is, by far, the most …

A banking Trojan masquerading as the popular free AV solution from Avast has been spotted on computers of Brazilian users, reports Kaspersky Lab Expert Dmitry Bestuzhev. The …

Notifications sent out to employees and contractors of the U.S. Department of Energy have confirmed that it and its networks have been the latest victim of …

In Q4 2012, FortiGuard Labs has highlighted malware samples that show four typical methods cybercriminals are using today to extract money from their victims. In addition, the …

The Zeus/Zbot banking malware and its variants and derivates (such as the Citadel Trojan) have, until now, been used for stealing banking credentials from random users. But …

The recent discovery of the Red October malware has focused a lot on its effects, but inadequate attention has been given to its purpose – which successfully evaded …

Twitter has reset the passwords and revoked session tokens of some 250,000 Twitter users following a successful breach of a database containing user data. The compromise has …

A day after the New York Times revealed that its network and the computers of 53 of their employees have been compromised by hackers believed to be based in China, the Wall …