Banking trojans continue to be the scourge of the web, with Zeus, Citadel, Ramnit, Spyeye and others continuing to infect machines on a widespread basis. But a new offering has been uncovered in a Russian cybercrime forum, a malware variant that, until…

Last week, German security company Vulnerability Lab published details on the Full Disclosure mailing list about a series of bugs it had discovered in PayPal. These were a persistent payment mail encoding vulnerability; a persistent search vulnerabilit…

New revelations published by the Dutch newspaper NRC indicate that the NSA’s Tailored Access Operations (TAO) may have infected more than 50,000 computer networks around the world with spyware that it can turn on and off at will remotely.

Racing Post, a British horse racing, greyhound racing and betting newspaper, announced Sunday that its website had been breached and usernames, first and last names, passwords, email addresses and date of birth have been stolen.

A methodical brute-force password-guessing attack on web hosting development site GitHub has resulted in a mass password reset and the revocation of various security authorizations.

Trojan backdoors have traditionally attacked desktop and now mobile computers. In recent months, however, attackers have started to target servers. Two typical purposes are to use server bandwidth for powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) campa…

The ongoing cyber-attacks by Anonymous on US government websites are being made possible thanks to an exploit for Adobe ColdFusion.

A new vulnerability in Lenovo network storage devices has been uncovered. The flaw can potentially be exploited by an attacker to gain unauthorized remote read-only access to network-attached storage (NAS) shares.

This year has seen a few high-profile wins for the good guys in the form of botnet takedowns, especially those by Microsoft and Symantec earlier this year. But at least one security researcher is warning against rejoicing too heartily: the takedowns, h…