Rapidly Growing Electrum Botnet Infects Over 152,000 Users; Steals $4.6 Million

An ongoing attack against Electrum Bitcoin wallets has just grown bigger and stronger with attackers now targeting the whole infrastructure of the exchange with a botnet of over 152,000 infected users, raising the amount of stolen users' funds to USD 4.6 million. Electrum has been facing cyber...

Cracked.com Compromised, Serving Malware

The popular humor website, Crackeddotcom reportedly hosted malware that infected the machines of its visitors over the weekend and may still be doing so, according to Barracuda Labs research. The malware proliferated via drive-by-downloads, and it is not known how many systems became infected as ...

Google to Notify Users of DNSChanger Infections Ahead of July 9 Deadline

With a deadline for users to disinfect their computers or potentially lose Internet access thanks to the DNSchanger malware, Google is undertaking an effort to notify infected users through messages on search results pages. The federal government also is working to warn users about the infections...