cybercriminals

Research by Websense reveals the trifecta that is driving epidemic levels of data theft: 1) extremely effective social media lures 2) evasive and hard-to-detect infiltration …

New York is the nation’s epicenter for online fraudsters, followed by Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Omaha respectively. Leveraging a sample of nearly a billion …

Instagram, the popular free photo sharing app for iOS devices, is now available for download for Android users on Google Play and Instagram’s website. Unfortunately, a …

Two distinct malicious spam campaigns are currently targeting Twitter users and taking them to compromised sites serving rogue AV and scareware software, warns GFI. The …

Fake Yahoo email notifications are hitting inboxes and urging users to verify their account because it has “exceeded its limit”, Hoax-Slayer warns. The message is …

Pro-Tibetan activists and organizations currently seem to be one of the most targeted groups when it comes to emails with malicious attachments, and the people behind the …

A slew of ransomware has been detected by a number of security companies in the last few days. Trend Micro researchers have spotted a ransomware variant that overwrites the …

With critical business services migrating to the cloud, service providers have become a prime target for cybercriminals. In the latest example of financial malware targeting …

Once again, Google users are being targeted with emails purportedly coming from the Google Team, confirming a bogus recovery e-mail update: Seeing the threat of a permanent …

Malicious Tibetan-themed email campaigns are still going strong, targeting pro-Tibetan organizations and making them inadvertently install malware on their machines. The …

Social Security numbers of some 280,000 Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Plans users and “less sensitive” information on 500,000 more of them has …

Blackhat SEO is a popular tactic for malware peddlers to distribute their wares to unsuspecting victims, and the weeks before major holidays are always a perfect time for …