Malware

Users who install the malware might find their mobile devices held to ransom or bank accounts emptied.

A recent study found computers in Tampa, Orlando and St. Louis are more than five times as likely to be infected with malware as the national average.

Researchers have identified what they believe is the first in-the-wild instance of hackers using malicious macros in Word documents to execute malware on Mac computers, instead of Windows-based machines.

A newly discovered smishing campaign is faking texts from the Czech Republic's postal service, hoping to trick recipients into downloading a malicious app containing a trojan horse designed to steal credit card information.

Malwarebytes researchers warn users to be on the lookout for a large family of Spigot browser hijackers.

Triada, a modular backdoor for Android, the top of the "most wanted mobile malware".

One or more unidentified hacker groups are leveraging free and commonly available pen testing tools to attack enterprises in the finance, government and telecom sectors with "fileless" malware that resides only in a machine's RAM, making it extremely difficult to detect and analyze.