In a sure sign that the virtual currency Bitcoin has hit the mainstream, a new Trojan horse program discovered in the wild Thursday seeks out and steals victims’ Bitcoin wallets, the same way other malware goes for their banking passwords or credit card numbers. The malware, Infostealer.Coinbit, is fairly simple: it ...

Although the original domain used to facilitate the $400 transaction is down, a huge number of people remain infected with the "copyright violation alert". Here's a universal license code for removing it.

What's more devastating than a DDoS attack launched by a botnet? In some cases, that's the DDoS attack launched by the "opt-in botnet" aggregated through a crowdsourcing campaign.

New report indicates that the combination of the ZeuS crimeware kit, and the tremendous increase of malicious PDFs seen in 2009, play a crucial role in the growth model of the cybercrime ecosystem.

The New York Times is reporting that Google's password system was compromised during a targeted attack last December.

According to Intego's security memo, OSX/HellRTS.D is being distributed on a number of forums shows that it will be accessible to a large number of malicious users who may attempt to use it to attack Macs.

The identity thieves behind the Zeus malware attacks are now using the "/launch" command feature in Adobe Reader to launch malicious attacks without exploiting a vulnerability in the software.

In a sudden about-face, Sun has rushed out a Java update to fix a drive-by download vulnerability that exposed Windows users to in-the-wild malware attacks.

Virus hunters have spotted the attacks on a popular song lyrics Web site. Any visitor to that Web site with the Java Plugin for Browsers installed (Internet Explorer or Firefox) will get infected with malware.

A newly released survey, ‘Teenage Hacking Habits’, reveals that based on a sample of 1000 teenagers, 16% admitted to hacking, 34% had already started by age 13, 84% by age 16, and 51% hack from home. Are "hacker moms" to blame?