Malware

The $163 million ruling by a Maryland federal judge addresses the final defendant of a rogue anti-virus ring first contested in 2008.

Government officials have yet to confirm the identity of the attackers, though Chinese hackers are being flagged as suspects.

With billions of devices worldwide running Java, Oracle faced a debacle in August as the details for two zero-day exploits in its popular software were leaked and actively used in attacks.

Last month's featured news from Shamoon attacking oil companies to Wyndham Hotels challenging the FTC.

Seeker from Quotium takes a somewhat different approach to application security from most similar products.

This month's threat of the month is anti-virtualization malware which automatically activates on a system boot-up.

The latest high-profile advanced persistent threat victim is Adobe, after "sophisticated threat actors" were able to infiltrate a build server to access the company's code-signing infrastructure. The compromised cert is to be revoked.