Zeljka Zorz

A new type of ransomware that obviously concentrates on targeting organizations instead of home users has been spotted by Emsisoft researchers. Dubbed CryptoLocker, the …

Earlier this week, the primarily state owned Belgacom – the largest telecom in Belgium, with customers such as the European Commission, Council and Parliament – …

The websites of nearly a dozen energy sector companies have been compromised to serve as so-called “watering holes”, where visitors would be served with malware or …

A lot has been said and written about the long-lasting TDSS (or TDL) and the considerably newer ZeroAccess (or Sirefef) rootkits, and the similarities between the two have …

Cybercrooks wielding the Caphaw (better known as Shylock) banking Trojan are once again targeting users of financial institutions around the world, warns Zscaler. The initial …

Email spammers often try to take advantage of current news and to impersonate legitimate news sites (usually CNN) in order to bypass spam filters and convince recipients to …

Researchers from Vietnamese security firm Bkav have recently spotted and analyzed a new piece of malware that uses an unexpected self-protection mechanism: it …

The existence, the modus operandi and details of successful campaigns of another Chinese hacking group have been revealed by Symantec researchers, who have managed to tie to …

Microsoft has yesterday unexpectedly released a security advisory warning users about instances of active exploitation of a vulnerability found in all supported versions of …

A group of Georgia Tech researchers has created quite a stir at this year’s Black Hat conference when they showcased chargers capable of installing malware on iPhones, …

The next Mobile Pwn2own competition is to be held in November at the PacSec Applied Security Conference in Tokyo, and contestants can earn as much as $100,000 for a successful …

The discovery of a vulnerability in popular open source web application framework Django has recently demonstrated that using a long password is not always the best thing to …