Malware

An ongoing attack on Google users is sending victims to rogue AV software sites, according to researchers at eSoft's Threat Prevention Team.

A new bogus service lures jilted lovers and other victims into paying for Facebook login and password credentials, according to PandaLabs.

The popular children's television show website, which is run by the Public Broadcasting Service, was propagating malware from Monday until Thursday.

A group charged with developing and promoting internet standards has published a new draft standard calling for measures that internet service providers can use to defeat botnets.

Eighty percent of computers that have been compromised are still infected after 30 days, and nearly 50 percent remain infected after 10 months, according to an analysis released Wednesday by Trend Micro.

Researchers at Trusteer credit the trojan's morphing and rootkit capabilities with keeping it in the wild.

Hackers posing as a trusted advertiser tried to trick NYTimes.com visitors into believing their computers were infected so they would buy a fake anti-virus product, the paper has revealed.