Damballa has discovered a new iteration of the TDSS/TDL4 botnet that, at its height last autumn, infected more than 5.5 million victims. Now, it’s back and is utilizing domain generation algorithm (DGA)-based communication for command-and-control (C&C).

Subway restaurant franchises can rest easy: The culprits behind an international electronic fraud ring that targeted point-of-sale (PoS) vulnerabilities at hundreds of US retail locations have pled guilty to cyber-fraud charges.

Infosecurity caught up with John Howie, COO of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), at the recent ASIS/(ISC)² Congress in Philadelphia, where he discussed how the cloud is altering the role of security professionals

When it comes to small- and medium-sized business (SMB) applications, the cloud and mobility are on the rise, driving an increased need for comprehensive security, according to a new report from Osterman Research, commissioned by Trend Micro.

In a wide-ranging interview broadcast over online Spreaker radio but conducted probably via IRC, UK Anon Winston Smith has been talking to Null, the leader of the NullCrew hacking group.

The US General Services Administration (GSA) is planning to implement a five-year, $2.5 billion email-as-a-service (EaaS) strategy, as part of the government-wide cloud computing initiative that helps meet federal mandates for migrating information tec…

The Phillipines has signed the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 into law, meant to curtail and punish a range of internet-related offenses, from libel to hacking and cybersex to spamming.

The first inductees of the National Cyber Security Hall of Fame have been announced, representing a collection of pioneers who invented the technologies, created awareness, promoted and delivered education, developed and influenced policy and created b…

China’s cybersecurity market is set to explode, growing from a valuation of just $1.8 billion last year to $50 billion by 2020, according to new research from GlobalData. The big 44.7% growth curve – which the firm says is an anomaly on the global stag…

A new report, drawing on 18 million observations of P2P activity on BitTorrent file sharing, analyzes what locations are downloading which music files – legally or illegally.