Traditional malware is slowly becoming extinct as malware creators have realized that targeting routers and other Internet-connected devices (the Internet of Things) is more successful and in some cases, more financially lucrative as well. Routers and IoT devices are easy to infiltrate and because t
The Internet is a dangerous place and it seems like every day a new threat is discovered that could put your personal and financial data at risk. One of the most popular ways cybercriminals accomplish this is through a technique known as phishing. Phishing is a type of cyberattack whereby hackers cr
Researchers from Kaspersky Labs recently warned about a new Advanced Persistent Threat, or APT, that includes a powerful Remote Access Tool (RAT) with the ability to mitigate nearly all current IT security measures while granting full administrative access to the infected system from anywhere in the
The last several months have been plagued by countless reports of hardware routers being exploited by hackers for various reasons. Popular router brands including Belkin, Net Gear, and Linksys have all been targeted by cybercriminals and used as botnets to launch DDoS attacks. In fact, the PlayStati
A new malvertising campaign was recently discovered that has been running for at least three weeks without being detected although security experts concede that the threat could have been operating undetected for much longer than that. Considering the large number of malvertising schemes that have b
A new version of the persistent and powerful adware program known as Shopperz has been spotted in the wild and this new version has security researchers wondering what other tricks may be in store for PC users in the future due to the sophistication of this new adware variant. Sometimes also referre
An extremely dangerous and highly sophisticated new banking Trojan was recently spotted in the wild by researchers from IBM’s Security X-Force. Named Shifu, which means thief in Japanese, this banking Trojan appears to have been active since April of this year despite only being discovered in recent
JavaScript is still heavily used as a scripting language for interactive website effects. In fact, JavaScript is still number 8 on the Top 10 coding languages this year despite the fact that both JavaScript and Java, its proverbial big brother, are heavily leveraged by hackers to distribute maliciou
As summer slowly comes to a close, retailers are already ramping up for their most profitable quarter of the year…the holiday shopping season. This is a notoriously busy time for cybercriminals looking to cash in on the large amounts of payment data sent across the Internet during this time of year
There have been an increasing number of advanced persistent threats (APTs) discovered in recent months. These attacks threaten PC security on a global scale and the people behind these attacks are no slouches either. To create an effective APT campaign, many resources are required that go well beyon