Malware

Wendy's yesterday identified over 1,000 U.S. franchised locations that were affected by two variants of point-of-sale malware discovered earlier this year.

Researchers at Cisco Talos believe the disappearance of the Angler exploit kit (EK) from the threat landscape may be a long-term situation and that its absence is most likely tied to the take down of a Russian gang by law enforcement in early June.

In the documentary-thriller Zero Days, an anonymous source not only acknowledges that the U.S. and Israel were behind the Stuxnet cyberattack on Iran's Natanz nuclear facility, but also blames Israel for the worm's eventual discovery.

Sucuri researchers spotted a malware campaign dubbed Realstatistics infecting thousands of websites built on Joomla! and WordPress.

A new variant has been added to the Kovter malware family posing as a Firefox update and that uses a legitimate certificate has been spotted by Barkly.

IT professionals are quaking in their boots over the threat of DDoS extortion if the results of a new survey are anything to go by.

A new malware strain, dubbed Keydnap, is targeting Mac users, perhaps, in particular, security researchers.

Cybereason Labs researcher Amit Serper claims to have spotted the threat actors behind the OSX.Pirrit as well as a newer version of the adware.