Malware

A 22-year-old Ohio man was sentenced to three years in jail after pleading guilty in April to hacking websites, some belonging to police agencies.

Symantec researchers believe the malicious app is a variant of "Fake Defender," malware used in earlier ransomware scams.

The Pushdo malware detects when users are running a malware monitoring tool called FakeNet, and goes on to spam the site, researchers found.

Discovered by researchers at Mac security software company Intego, the malware seems to be targeting supporters of Tibet and the Dalai Lama.

Canada's Royal Canadian mounted police swooped on a data center in the Burnaby, BC area this month, seizing computers that they say may be linked to a $500 million botnet.

Authorities have identified an attacker suspected of carrying out a sophisticated hack against Vodafone Germany, compromising personal information for nearly two million of the mobile phone company's customers.

The Kimsuky trojan is being used to collect organizations' sensitive data, Kaspersky found.