Malware

Vonteera adware family has been spotted using a new trick to disable anti-malware and anti-virus software.

Smart TVs are not being targeted by hackers right now, but a researcher at Symantec has noted that cybercriminals have a wide range of options if they wish to breach the average Smart TV.

A data breach at Pearson VUE, the certification manager for Cisco, Oracle and IBM compromised the company's Credential Manager System and allowed unauthorized third-party access to data of "a limited set" of its users, Pearson VUE said in a Saturday statement.

Researchers at Damballa have discovered a toolset that may have helped the Destover and Shamoon malware remain undetected when they used to hack Sony and Saudi Aramco.

France reportedly saw a sharp increase in attempted cyber attacks in the weeks leading up to the terror attacks in Paris last week.

Cybercrimminals are using the fear generated from the recent wave of terror attacks to target corporate offices in the Middle East and Canada with spear phishing attacks.

Adware Shedun takes advantage of legitimate features in Android Accessibility Service

Researchers at the Microsoft Malware Protection Center have observed a hacking team that they call Strontium aiming zero-day attacks at servers in governments, military forces and diplomatic organizations within members of NATO, journalists and political advisors as well as some governments within Eastern Europe.