Malware

Researchers at Zscaler reported on a spike in Java-based remote access trojan variants, or jRATs.

Best American Hospitality Corp. reported that 37 Shoney's restaurants it manages and operates were hit with point-of-sale (POS) malware starting in late December and lasting through early March.

IT security company Fortinet has pointed out one of the latest tax scams to befoul the Internet -- this one in the form of a spyware program disguised as an IRS tax return notification.

Sucuri researchers spotted a campaign of attacks defacing websites using an obfuscation technique that made detection difficult.

Malwarebytes researchers spotted an uptick in United States Postal Service (USPS) themed malspam delivering one of three banking trojans.

Hackers launched an attack against Union Bank of India that was very similar to the attack Bangladesh bank heist that resulted in the theft of $81 million.

Following the arrest in Spain of a Russian suspected of being a notorious spam king, U.S. authorities have begun unraveling the operation he's alleged to have controlled, the Kelihos botnet.