cybercriminals

A Russian resident in his early 20s is believed to be the leader of a tightly knit gang using banking Trojans and money mules to earn themselves millions of dollars. The …

Users that have downloaded the uTorrent software client from the uTorrent.com website on Tuesday morning are warned that they might have ended up with scareware on their …

The first SpyEye variant, called SPITMO, has been spotted attacking Android devices in the wild. According to Amit Klein, Trusteer’s chief technology officer, the threat …

Humans have many impulses and fears, and cyber crooks can be counted on exploiting each and every one of them for achieving their purposes. The latest example of this has been …

Typosquatting is a well-known phenomena on the Internet. Most users have – at one point or another – misspelled the URL of the site they wanted to visit and were …

Facebook users are being targeted by a rather unusual scam, warns Sophos. This one lures them in with the offer of a free official Facebook T-shirt as a way to celebrate the …

German Windows users are the latest target of some pretty brazen scammers, warns Panda Security. The whole thing starts with a Trojan – likely received via spammy emails …

As the predictions about the release of iPhone 5 seem all to point to the beginning of October, cyber scammers have decided to add to the frenzy by offering the coveted device …

Yesterday, GlobalSign announced that it will not be issuing any more certificates until the claims about a breach into its networks made by the “Comodohacker” are …

GFI Software today announced its top 10 most prevalent threat detections for August 2011. Notable threats last month included spam and poisoned search engine results targeting …

An cardinal oversight on a third party fulfillment agency website hosting activation keys for Codemasters’ DiRT 3 game has resulted in the leak of some 3 million keys …

For the first time a Norton study calculates the cost of global cybercrime: $114 billion annually. Based on the value victims surveyed placed on time lost due to their …