Malware

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.

A new malware family dubbed Alice has been detected that is solely focused on making ATMs spit out cash.

Kaspersky Lab claims that a mobile phone Trojan has gone truly international - with it being translated into 77 languages - and works by demanding admin control of the phone.