Phishing

Digital media company Yahoo has ended a three-year legal battle against a team of spammers, winning a default judgment of $610 million.

A massive Chinese-based hacker attack on Canadian federal government agencies late in 2010 was aimed at uncovering information about the takeover bid for Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan.

Attackers have been widely spamming messages - purportedly sent from Amazon - claiming users' accounts are about to be deactivated.

Variants of the Zeus trojan are being used in new Facebook and banking heists, security researchers and law enforcement are warning.

Spammers have begun trying to capitalize on the Cyber Monday buying frenzy.

Cyber Monday, the digital equivalent of the brick-and-mortar world's Black Friday, is one of the busiest online shopping days of the year, and typically marks the beginning of a month-long period of increased online threats.

A Reddit user with the handle "Roddds" found the credentials of 47,000 webmail users after investigating a phishing message.

Phishing is all grown up and operated on a large-scale by well-funded cybercriminals who use botnets to harvest personal data and sell it on the black market.