malware

As expected, malicious spam taking advantage of the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has been hitting inboxes since the news was announced. The emails contain a simple …

Ransomware has been around for quite some time and likely won’t disappear soon, as it usually does manage to make inexperienced users fork over to the criminals quite a …

For a while now, fake messages and warnings from USPS, FedEx and DHL about supposedly undelivered packages have been hitting inboxes, and users have been getting wiser about …

As the use of QR codes becomes increasingly widespread, users should be aware that they are also becoming an easy way for malware peddlers to spread their malicious wares. …

Cyber-espionage, along with privacy violations and social networking attacks facilitated by the increased use of mobile and tablet devices, will be the source of increased …

In the wake of the news that Google has again been removing Premium SMS fraudulent apps masquerading as popular games from its the official Android Market, TrendMicro’s …

IID released its list of the top security trends from 2011. Some specific trends that IID saw emerge over the past year include the extended enterprise coming under assault, …

Mobile threats are on the rise — Lookout estimates that mobile threats successfully stole more than one million dollars from Android users in 2011. In 2012, Lookout predicts …

Back at the beginning of November, Symantec researchers made public a report they compiled on a spear phishing campaign carrying a backdoor Trojan that was systematically …

AlienVault Labs researchers have unearthed a piece of malware that takes advantage of the recently discovered zero-day Adobe Reader flaw used for attacking defense …

European mobile phone users should be on the lookout for premium SMS toll fraud apps as a great number of them has been lately discovered on file sharing sites, third-party …

Looking back on 2011, FortiGuard Labs saw a number of landmark developments in the world of network security. Huge botnets such as DNS Changer and Coreflood were permanently …