Malware

Phishing emails containing a Zeus trojan are coming from alleged neighbors, who claim to have information to share from an attorney.

Malware being offered up on Russian underground forums is said to be capable of attacking devices running either iOS or Android operating systems.

With the Heartbleed bug grabbing headlines around the world, attackers are leveraging the news for their own malicious tactics.

Spammers, pretending to be a manufacturer of toiletries, are targeting major banks and social media networks with the Gameover variant of the nefarious Zeus trojan.

The Necurs and Zbot trojans, as well as CryptoLocker ransomware, has been observed by researchers as being spread through another trojan, known as Fareit.

An SMS trojan for Android, known as FakeInst, has been observed sending premium SMS messages to users all over the world, including, for the first time, the United States.

An update to the P2P Zeus banking trojan results in the installation of a rootkit driver that makes deleting the malware even tougher.

A Windows trojan delivered via drive-by download is injecting malicious content into Facebook and ultimately fooling users into downloading Android malware that can allow for the capturing of SMS messages.