22-year old man from Vancouver, Washington, has been sentenced to a US federal prison for his role in the development of the Satori botnet, which launched...
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A million emails per day. That’s how much spam Bitdefender has seen starting the 21st June, in a massive campaign spreading the infamous Locky ransomware...
Online advertising is a multi-billion dollar business mostly ran by Google, Yahoo or Bing via AdSense-like programs. The current generation of clickbots such...
Alex Yücel, the Swedish co-creator of the Blackshades RAT, has been sentenced to 57 months in a US Federal prison. In May 2014, the European Union’s...
It’s not at unusual these days to hear stories of innocent people’s webcams being hacked. Typically the perpetrators are guys, getting their kicks...
A new malware known as Mac.BackDoor.iWorm is targeting Mac OS X computers to steal users’ personal data and hijack them into a criminal botnet, according to...
A self-proclaimed hacker community from Russia installs data-stealing malware on users’ machines by pretending the software was designed to attack...
Botnet armies have become attackers’ favorite tool to control and distribute malicious software, infecting more than 500 million computers per year, or...
Computer crime fighters have today announced that they have seized essential infrastructure used by the highly advanced Shylock banking malware, effectively...
It was a fruitful year for cyber-crime authorities worldwide, and notorious hackers were arrested with a weekly or even daily frequency. Neither Christmas nor...