Malware

Cutwail, the world's largest spam botnet, is often used to distribute financial malware like Gameover Zeus.

Shantanu Gawde, a 17-year-old security researcher, has become the first person to infect the newly released mobile Firefox OS with malware.

College and university networks were 300 percent more likely to contain malware than government organizations and enterprises, a cloud security firm found after analyzing its network of millions.

Roughly 35,000 websites that use the proprietary internet message board software vBulletin have been compromised by attackers who took advantage of an exploit in some versions of the forum.

Symantec researchers discovered info-stealing Nemim in 2006, but have now detected new variants of the malware.

Security researchers discovered that a piece of malware, known as Ploutus, has been infecting ATM machines in Mexico.

Banks in South Africa have suffered tens of millions in losses in rand due to a variant of the Dexter virus, a piece of malware targeting point-of-sale devices.

Symantec has discovered a new type of phishing attack that preys on Facebook users who want to know who has been viewing their profiles.