Malware

The term advanced persistent threat, or APT, has been flung around by vendors ad nauseam over the past several years. In a sense, given the sheer number of breaches, one can't blame them. But is what they're telling you, the buyer, truthful?

A 22-year-old, accused of using modified versions of the Carberp banking trojan to steal login details and digital signatures from compromised computers, was apprehended in Russia.

Variants of the SpyEye and Zeus toolkits are being used in a global fraud ring to evade multifactor authentication and raid high-balance accounts.

Despite months of warnings, 303,867 machines worldwide remain infected with DNSChanger malware, according to the most recent statistics from the DNSChanger Working Group.

Paging Dunder Mifflin. Security firm Symantec warned Thursday of a new trojan whose goal is to drop a file that automatically displays advertisements, a strain of adware known as Eorezo.

Blueprint drawings in Peru are the latest target of information-stealing malware, after researchers at ESET discovered the Medrea worm in circulation.

PayPal has joined the likes of Google and Facebook by announcing Thursday that it will begin paying researchers who discover vulnerabilities on its website.