Pakistan-Linked Hackers Added New Windows Malware to Its Arsenal

Cybercriminals with suspected ties to Pakistan continue to rely on social engineering as a crucial component of its operations as part of an evolving espionage campaign against Indian targets, according to new research. The attacks have been linked to a group called Transparent Tribe, also known ...

DNS Hijacks Now Being Used to Serve Black Hole Exploit Kit

Attackers have been going after various pieces of the DNS infrastructure for a long time now, and it’s not unusual for there to be somewhat organized campaigns that target certain vertical industries or geographic regions. But researchers lately have been seeing an interesting pattern of...

Google Removes .CO.CC Subdomains Over Phishing, Spam Concerns

In a rare and sweeping move, Google has removed all of the sites hosted on .co.cc domains from its search results, saying that because such a large percentage of the sites on that freehosting provider are low-quality or spammy, they decided to de-index all of them. The .co.cc domain is well-known...