Malware

The complex Flame espionage toolkit shows efforts to gather intelligence on certain countries is in high gear, but the malware's functionality may not be all that different from what already is on the scene.

An Armenian man charged in 2010 with running the Bredolab botnet was sentenced this week in his home country to four years in prison.

With a July 9 deadline looming for machines infected with the DNSChanger trojan to still be able to access the internet, Google is lending a helping hand to inform users of compromise.

The latest McAfee Threats Report revealed that the amount of Android malware still is soaring.

On a recent penetration test, I ran into an interesting problem whose solution resulted in several handy techniques for remote malware distribution and, in some cases, antivirus bypass. These techniques may be common amongst seasoned penetration testers, but I felt they were worth sharing with the rest of the information security community, seeing as it […]

Compromising anywhere from a few thousand to well over a million systems, botnets are used by cyber criminals to take over computers and execute illegal and damaging activities.

With fraud complaints more than doubling over the past five years, protecting private information is more critical than ever for those who rely on the internet for communicating personal and financial data.