malware

McAfee released its latest threats report, revealing that malware surpassed the company’s estimate of 75 million unique malware samples last year. Although the release …

Syrian opposition activists have been targeted by the government since the start of the massive anti-government protests in January 2011, but only recently they have began to …

Trend Micro released HijackThis as an open source application. The code, originally written in Visual Basic, is now officially available at SourceForge. HijackThis scans your …

AccessData released Forensic Toolkit 4 (FTK) that gives organizations affordable access to more advanced incident response and remote investigative capabilities. Using FTK, …

The old Cutwail botnet is still alive and spamming from its 1,5 million bots, and has lately been spotted using malicious HTML attachments. The spam emails vary from fake …

Mobile malware has reached a new stage of maturation, according to Juniper Networks. Top findings from Juniper’s 2011 Mobile Threats Report are evidence of accelerating …

Ransomware targeting Italian-speaking users is being served from compromised websites via malicious JavaScript code, warns Total Defense’s Rossano Ferraris. The users …

Fake Facebook notifications about changes in users’ account information have been hitting inboxes and delivering malware to unwary users, warn BarracudaLabs researchers. …

PandaLabs reported the presence of a powerful new bot called Ainslot.L. This malware is designed to log user activities, download additional malware and take control of …

Trend Micro announced Mobile App Reputation, a technology that can automatically identify, analyze and rate mobile applications for issues that could include malware, …

In 2011, the most significant evolution in the threat landscape was the use of malware networks, or malnets, to launch highly dynamic Web-based attacks, according to Blue Coat …

The fastest growing malware categories in the second half of 2011 were PPI (Pay-Per-Installs) and information stealers that target user credentials enabling the theft of key …