Malware

A recently discovered exploit kit called Stegano is infecting select machines via malicious banner ads that, by conservative estimates, have been delivered to over a million users in just the last two months.

In making its announcement on Monday of the shutdown of Avalanche, the U.S. Department of Justice said it turned the tables on the criminals, "by targeting not just individual actors, but the entire Avalanche infrastructure."

The Shamoon data-wiping malware that attacked government systems in Saudi Arabia last month is not dramatically different from an older version that destroyed 35,000 computers at Saudi oil company Aramco in 2012. Yet the still packs a massive punch.

A man known only as Pornopoker was arrested in Russia under suspicion of distributing ransomware.

The New York Attorney General is warning lawyers in the Big Apple to beware of a phishing campaign proclaiming to be from the AG himself.

Global authorities' takedown of Avalanche, a cybercriminal network whose malware campaigns are estimated to have cost victims in over 180 countries hundreds of millions of dollars, was an achievement four years in the making - and yet the saga is far from over.

A hacker is apologizing for knocking thousands of British TalkTalk and Post Office internet subscribers offline in a recent botnet powered DDoS attack.

The dark web has long had an ominous appeal to Netizens with more illicit leanings and interests.