malware

An investigation into the methods of distibution of the FakeRean familiy of fake AVs has revealed some interesting facts, says GFI. In order to lure people into downloading …

At the rate at which databases of various online services are currently being compromised, I expect that emails such as this latest one spotted by Symantec will become a …

It took only eight hours for the malware developers behind the MacDefender and its variants to come up with a way to bypass the security update pushed out by Apple. According …

Auto-dialing malware has migrated from Symbian devices to Android ones, warns NetQin Mobile researchers. The Trojan has been spotted embedded in over 20 Android applications …

26 applications containing a variation of the DroidDream Trojan have been found on the official Android Market and are believed to have been downloaded by at least 30,000 …

With six million unique samples of recorded malware, Q1 2011 was the most active first quarter in malware history, according to McAfee. The report revealed many of the trends …

Fake AV peddlers have begun using Facebook to drive traffic to the malicious site that tries to trick users into believing their computer is infected. With subject lines like …

Apple just released Security Update 2011-003 which can be downloaded and installed via Software Update preferences, or from Apple Downloads. This is a small update weighing …

BitDefender discovered a spam wave using the Romanian president’s image to help spread malware. The unsolicited e-mail relies on a classic combination of social …

Compared to the previous month, the amount of spam in email traffic increased by 1.2 per cent and averaged 80.8 per cent, according to Kaspersky Lab’s most recent …

When the news that the Spanish police arrested the three individuals suspected of running the Mariposa botnet was made public back in March 2010, it was generally thought that …

There is a new variant of the Mac Defender rogue AV out there, and this one doesn’t require users to enter the administrator password in order to install the program, …