Malware

A newly discovered Android trojan can sabotage entire Wi-Fi networks and the users who connect to them by accessing the router that an infected device is communicating with and executing a Domain Name System hijack attack.

The Leet Botnet may have wrested the 2016 crown as most powerful distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack from Mirai with a 650 Gigabit per second (Gbps) attack launched early last week.

As cryptocurrency enjoys greater acceptance, it's no wonder there's been a correlative influx of schemes to grab some of the virtual loot during the lucrative holiday shopping season.

Along with good tidings, the holiday season is bringing a preponderance of spam.

A proprietary spyware tool that was recently found infecting Ukrainian military forces battling Russian separatists is an Android version of the same malware that helped hackers steal files from the Democratic National Committee, CrowdStrike has reported.

A new trojan dupes victims into installing malicious payloads with a popup screen that mimics a Windows "save" dialog box.

A 29-year-old man who infected computers around the world with malware and stole roughly $1 million from victims' bank accounts was sentenced to five years and three months in a U.K. prison.