Malware

The Anti-Phishing Working Group observed more phishing attacks in the first quarter of 2016 than in any other three-month span since it began tracking data in 2004, according to the anti-cybercrime coalition.

The "Celebgate" hacker pled guilty for a phishing scam that led him to hack into celebrity accounts to steal nude photos.

A long-time hacker group is using DNS requests as a command-and-control mechanism in a new series of malware attacks.

With summer just around the corner, people are looking for quick diet solutions online to get their bodies 'beach ready'. A third of Brits (34 percent) are willing to sacrifice their online safety to lose a few pounds by clicking on potentially malicious websites that offer to help 'lose belly fat'.

A new scam is tricking users of WhatsApp into downloading a so-called exclusive version of the app called 'WhatsApp Gold', which infects mobile devices with malware.

The criminal developers behind the ransomware DMA Locker have for the third time updated the malware rolling out 4.0 version several days ago.

Although an Adobe update to its Flash program fixed a zero-day vulnerability, attackers are still taking advantage of it as many users have failed to install the patch.