A South American researcher with Kaspersky Lab claims to have spotted a Java-driven injection technology that generates a fake Virustotal website for the unsuspecting.

Attacks of the W32.Qakbot worm, which was responsible for a data breach at a Massachusetts labor agency, are on the rise after the author “seeded” newer variants, according to analysis by Symantec.

The last 12 months have seen the volume of 64-bit Win7-equipped machines being sold rising steadily and it seems that cybercriminals have woken up to the trend, developing 64-bit malware.

Hell hath no fury like an upset cracker, it seems, as the tidal wave of apparent supporters of George Hotz appear to be targeting Sony in an unprecedented hackathon.

Reports are coming in that the BlackHole exploit kit, a pivotal piece of malware in the same league as Zeus, has joined the infamous malware in being offered for free on darkware forums.

It appears that, despite President Obama recently going on national TV in the US to tell everyone that Osama bin Laden is dead, Facebook users are being lured to a credential-stealing set of web pages by a tweet referencing a ‘CNN report’ that the head…

Sony’s So-net Entertainment admitted that its customer rewards site was hacked and that customers’ email accounts were compromised and redeemable gift points stolen.

The vulnerability identified by NSS Labs researchers in Siemens’ programmable logic controllers (PLCs) is only a part of larger security issues, according to NSS Labs president Rick Moy.

Trident Media Guard, the French company tasked with monitoring internet piracy under the country’s ‘three strikes’ rule, is reported to have taken legal action against the hacker that attacked its servers.

F-Secure claims that Sony’s servers have been hacked yet again and its systems are hosting a live phishing site.