A number of phony apps, masquerading as the popular photo-editing app Prisma, have been removed from the Google Play Store, but not before 1.5 million users downloaded the Android version
Several websites using the FreeDNS hosting service from NameCheap have had visitors redirected to malicious, cloned sites via an IP address that once hosted command-and-control servers for the Conficker worm.
The FBI has posted a "Cyber's Most Wanted" list to appeal to the public for help in nabbing a number of criminals wanted for crimes involving computers, bank fraud and other nefarious online schemes.
Eighty-three percent of fraudulent money transfers reported to the FBI as the result of business email compromise scams are wired to banks in China and Hong Kong, CNN reported, following an FBI presentation at the International Conference on Cyber Security.
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