Malware

A new phishing scheme leveraging the McDonald's name is part of a trend that plays on the economic downturn.

Facebook has won a $436 million judgment against a Canadian spammer and his company.

Though worldwide spam levels are still diminished in the wake of the McColo hosting-company shutdown, it may only be a matter of time before they come roaring back.

Bucking the trend of declines in spam this week, a new socially engineered attack is making the rounds.

A U.S.-based web security provider and a U.K.-based email security vendor announced a merger on Wednesday.

Few anti-virus programs are detecting a new wave of malicious PDF files.

To some extent, anti-spam efforts may be having an effect, says a new academic report.

Internet fraudsters did not wait long to capitalize on the election of Barack Obama, flooding inboxes on Wednesday with malware spam.