Clickjacking Evolves to Hook Millions of Top-Site Visitors

Clickjacking, where links on a website redirect unknowing users to spam, advertising or malware, has been around for decades. However, new tactics that defy the best mitigation efforts of browsers has led to it affecting millions of internet users browsing the web’s top sites, researchers found i...

ZeroAccess Botnet Cashing in on Click Fraud and Bitcoin Mining

A mid-year switch in communication protocol and distribution strategy is behind a spike in activity from the ZeroAccess botnet, a prolific and malicious ad click fraud network. Researchers at Kindsight Security Lab reported today that ZeroAccess accounts for 29 percent of home network infections ...

9 million PCs infected with ZeroAccess botnet

In recent months, we've seen the rootkit family Win32/Sirefef and Win64/Sirefef also known as ZeroAccess Botnet update its command and control protocol and grow to infect more computers while connecting to over one million computers globally. Before, disclosed that it creates its own hidden...

Report: Bandwith-Burning Malware Among Biggest Consumer Threats

A new malware report indicates Android malware samples grew three-fold last quarter and that one in every 140 devices connected to mobile networks was infected at some point. Closer to home, about 14 percent of household networks were hit by malware this spring, with a 50 percent increase in...