Malware

An advanced remote access trojan known as Xtreme RAT has been identified by Seculert Research Lab as the malware used in an attack on Israeli organizations that impacted 15 machines.

On Wednesday, the retailer's CEO Karen Katz announced that malware on its payment systems may have impacted more than one million cards.

FireEye researchers have detected six variants of Android malware belonging to the "HeHe" family.

IntelCrawler concluded on Sunday that 23-year-old Rinat Shibaev - not 17-year-old Sergey Taraspov, as the company previously reported - is the writer of the malware that infected Target's point-of-sale systems.

At the border of U.S. and Mexico, two individuals were arrested in connection with the late-2013 Target breach.

Malware discovered on vendor servers may have led to the compromise of personal information, including payment cards, for anyone who shopped on the Easton-Bell Sports website in December 2013.

The cyber threat landscape has always been in flux and will continue to evolve. However, it seems the pace of change has increased significantly in the past few years alone.