The ESEA League, an online competitive gaming community, has decided to settle with the state of New Jersey after the active Attorney General there alleged that the gaming community operator infected user-machines with malware designed to mine for Bitcoins.
New financial malware known as i2Ninja has been discovered using the I2P darknet to send stolen banking credentials to its command and control servers.
Developers behind the Angler Exploit Kit have added a new exploit over the last week that leverages a vulnerability in Microsoft’s Silverlight framework.
Tens of millions of UK banking customers are at risk for infection by the CryptoLocker ransomware, the U.K.’s National Crime Agency warns.
11 separate APT espionage campaigns linked to China could have connections to a centralized development and operations infrastructure.
The existing state of affairs in which government agencies and intelligence services work to insert backdoors into various hardware, software and networks is not only a problem in terms of civil rights but also represents a serious security risk to most users and the Internet itself, a recent report by the Citizen Lab says. And, […]
A new watering hole attack is serving malware targeting an Internet Explorer vulnerability that injects its malicious payload directly into memory.
CryptoLocker ransomware infections are gaining traction and victims are at risk of losing important business or personal files to the malware which seeks out documents on a number of network resources and encrypts them.
Attackers exploiting the Microsoft Windows and Office zero day revealed yesterday are using an exploit that includes a malicious RAR file as well as a fake Office document as the lure, and are installing a wide variety of malicious components on newly infected systems. The attacks seen thus far are mainly centered in Pakistan.
Dennis Fisher talks with researcher Dragos Ruiu about his years-long struggle with a group of attackers who have infiltrated his network and are using malware that seems to resist all removal attempts and may have the ability to communicate using sound.
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