Malware

Most of the rise in cybercrime can be linked to data-stealing malware, and trojans are the fastest growing category.

A trojan has reportedly been uncovered that is harvesting FTP login data of major corporations, including the Bank of America, BBC, Amazon, Cisco, Monster.com, Symantec and McAfee.

President Obama's cybersecurity speech was the most notable information security event from the second quarter of 2009, security vendor F-secure said in its quarterly threat summary. The most notable threats from March to June included the Conficker worm, Twitter attacks, and PDF exploits. Conficker, in particular, "proved to be the most significant malware outbreak in recent years," F-Secure said. — AM

The settlement is just one in a long line of payoffs that followed one of the largest reported data-loss incidents on record.

A new outbreak of spam claims to be a critical update for Microsoft Outlook, but the message really aims to infect users with the information-stealing trojan ZBot, security firm Trend Micro warned Monday.

Researchers have spotted a new variant of the RSPlug Mac trojan in the wild.

Next week, Microsoft will make available to consumers a new, free anti-malware service to replace its subscription model.