Malware

An investigation dating back to January has finally confirmed that malware on point-of-sale systems may have compromised payment card data for millions of Michaels Stores and Aaron Brothers customers.

Emails purporting to come from Starbucks actually come attached with a modified version of the Zeus banking trojan, but numerous spelling and grammar mistakes should give the scam away.

Nine individuals are charged in an operation dating back to 2009, which involved infecting computers with the Zeus trojan and using the malware to steal millions.

Rogue Android apps can steal authentication tokens and risk the accounts of some of the most widely used services, including Google, Facebook and Twitter.

Orbit Open Ad Server was vulnerable to SQL injection attacks, which could result in website visitors' information being stolen via malvertising, a security firm found.

Targeted attacks grew by 91 percent and lasted three times longer, according to a recent threat report.

Anti-virus company Comodo has identified a variant of the infamous Zeus trojan that is avoiding detection by using a valid digital signature.