Tag: Malware

In 2010, emails – often using popular topics – have re-emerged as a key medium for spreading files and delivering Trojans as attachments following an upsurge last year.

Analysis reveals that the percentage of spam related to football and soccer keywords since March 2010 has approached 25 percent of all global spam in the build-up to the FIFA World Cup.

You thought you could only get Malware on your PC? Hackers are now targeting smartphones in the latest wave of attacks.

On this day 10 years ago, the LoveBug virus, a mass-mailing worm infected 45 million computer users when the virus multiplied overnight from 1 in every 1000 emails to 1 in 28.

Symantec Corp has announced the publication of its April 2010 MessageLabs Intelligence Report.

Spammers are targeting Google Chrome users this week, infecting their systems with malware via email through a fake browser extension.

Google’s top search terms are under attack from cybercriminals. In the last seven days, more than 284 top search terms have been attacked by more than 6600 malicious URLs according to SonicWALL data. The threat team has found up to nine of the top 20 Google search terms are under attack at any one time. […]