Malware

Adobe recently patched a vulnerability in its Flash Player that is being actively exploited to infect machines with gaming trojans, researchers said Wednesday.

Apple's increasing popularity is leading to the company's users being targeted by phishing schemes.

Normally, phishers have a short window of opportunity in which to conduct their attacks before service providers take the rogue sites offline. Now, they have found a new way to lengthen their assaults.

Thirty-eight people, including a host of U.S. residents and foreign nationals, have been charged in connection to two international phishing operations that preyed on unsuspecting bank customers, investigators announced Monday.

If the law can ever find him, the spam king owes $223 million to the popular social networking site MySpace.

Half a million websites have been infected with a new round of malware attack and poorly implemented website configurations have been blamed.

A vendor of anti-spyware and anti-virus software has released a report saying that Windows Vista, the latest version of Microsoft's latest operating system, is more susceptible to malware than the company's Windows 2000.