Malware

The United States and Canada may share a common border, but Trend Micro researchers found the country has its own, unique threat landscape.

The Latvian man who admitted to co-authoring the notorious banking malware will be spared further jail time.

Hackers are using a new version of the adware server WebSearcher PUP that when downloaded resets the permissions on the three most popular browsers to only use the proxy that the adware sender has desires.

Palo Alto Networks has come across a new family of proxy-creating malware, called ProxyBack, that the company believes has been in the wild since 2014 and may have more than 20 versions now running.

Tech support scammers have found a new online base of operations to push their particular breed of malware moving to Rackspace from Amazon Web Services.

Turkey's presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said the country will bolster its cybersecurity efforts, after its DNS servers were hit with a 40Gbps DDoS attack that hacking group Anonymous took credit for last week.

Symantec has discovered a new mobile spyware it is calling Android.Spywaller that uses a legitimate security tool to spoof its way onto a device, specifically those found in the Chinese market.

A Malwarebytes blogger says Firefox users might want to remove the latest potentially unwanted programs (PUPs) from adware application Mint Cast and its variant Shell&Services.