Cybercrime

Several hundred compromised websites that at first glance don’t appear to be malicious have been discovered…

If a Facebook friend sends you an invitation to turn your profile pink, don’t accept — it’ll save you a huge hassle.

A malicious link on a YouTube account (and other websites providing embedded videos) offers game players a crack code for the PES 2012 soccer game. Instead, it delivers a rootkit.

A new and extremely viral clickjacking scam has been spotted targeting curious Facebook users.

Visitors to Facebook sites are often tricked into filling out surveys that generate affiliate payments for the scammers, victimizing legitimate businesses that pay affiliate fees…

…According to Hoax-Slayer, Amazon customers are currently being targeted with fake emails purportedly coming from the e-commerce giant…

Researchers have released two tools that can take advantage of a weakness in a system designed to let people easily secure their wireless routers.

Hackers armed with a single machine and a minimal broadband connection can cripple Web servers, researchers disclosed Wednesday, putting uncounted websites and Web apps at risk from denial-of-service attacks.

2011 was a momentous year in many aspects for the security industry, with high profile cyber-attacks and data breaches, but also a year in which many of the incidents evoked a sense of déjà vu amongst industry observers.

Research data compiled by the site over the last year (late 2010 to present) showed Dec. 27, 2010, to have the largest spike in malware infections it tracked, with a 56% increase over the previous day.