Security News

Kazakhstan govt targeted journalists, political activists with spyware (Help Net Security)
2016-08-05 13:00

Journalists and political activists critical of Kazakhstan’s authoritarian government, along with their family members, lawyers, and associates, have been targets of an online phishing and spyware...

Versatile Linux backdoor acts as downloader, spyware (Help Net Security)
2016-01-25 14:38

Another Linux Trojan has been discovered by researchers, and this one is pretty versatile: it opens a backdoor into the infected device, can download and run additional malicious files, and can spy on...

Asacub Transitions from Spyware to Banking Malware (Threatpost)
2016-01-21 11:55

Asacub, once thought just to be spyware, appears to have completed its transition into mobile banking malware, a researcher at Kaspersky Lab claims.