Symantec warns of Android botnet

A 'million dollar' Android botnet has been created, security vendor Symantec has warned.
 

Stuxnet and Duqu aren't even distant cousins

In a recent interview, iTWire asked Jon Callas, currently CTO at Entrust his thoughts on the recent Duqu malware and how closely it is related to Stuxnet.
 

Bitcoin miner Trojan arrives for Mac OS X

Trojanised versions of legitimate Mac software steal processing power as well as information.
 

Flashback Trojan hides inside Safari

  A new version of the Flashback Trojan targeting Mac OS X is just that bit more insidious than its predecessors.  
 

German Governments admit spyware was theirs

During the past 24 hours, as many as four German state governments have admitted to using spyware against their citizens.
 

Chaos Computer Club 'outs' German Government's spyware

Claiming the usual "it arrived in an anonymous brown paper bag," the Chaos Computer Club has announced the reverse engineering of what is claimed to be the German authorities' intercept malware, Quellen-TKÜ.
 

Flashback Trojan poses as Flash Player installer

Are Mac malware writers getting smarter? A recently discovered Trojan deactivates a popular security tool.
 

Mac Trojan poses as PDF

Security companies are warning of the arrival of a new Mac Trojan - dubbed Revir - that poses as a PDF file.
 

SBS becomes special malware-casting service: everyone next?

Predictions that 2011 would be the year of malware and cybercrime have certainly panned out, with the website of Australia’s SBS TV network the latest to suffer hacker infiltration.
 

Android malware scolds and shames users

An Android Trojan dubbed Walkinwat sends an SMS to all contacts stored on the phone, and sends personal data to a remote server.