• Peer-to-peer update to Zeus Trojan confers resistance to take-downs

  By Lucian Constantin | 13 October, 2011 00:42

  The Zeus financial malware has been updated with P-to-P (peer-to-peer) functionality that makes it much more resilient to take-down efforts and gives its controllers flexibility in how they run their fraud operations.

• German officials admit to deploying intercept software

  By Peter Sayer | 12 October, 2011 01:31

  Officials in a number of German state governments have owned up to using the Quellen-TKÜ Trojan Horse software in criminal investigations to intercept encrypted telecommunications on PCs. At least one state said it has suspended use of the software, after the Chaos Computer Club discovered that it could be controlled by anyone, not just law enforcement officers.

• SpyEye steals banking codes by sending them to wrong phone

  By Lucian Constantin | 07 October, 2011 01:27

  Researchers from browser security vendor Trusteer have identified a new variant of the SpyEye financial Trojan that tricks online banking users into changing the phone numbers associated with their accounts.

• SpyEye Trojan morphs to defeat online banking defenses

  By Jeremy Kirk | 27 July, 2011 00:27

  Banks are facing more trouble from SpyEye, a piece of malicious software that steals money from people's online bank accounts, according to new research from security vendor Trusteer.

• Lawsuit: Trial version of CAD software includes spyware

  By Grant Gross | 29 April, 2011 06:25

  A trial version of a 3D CAD software package includes "phone-home" functionality that allows the vendor to contact downloaders months later and demand thousands of dollars in licensing fees, according to a class-action lawsuit filed recently in Massachusetts.

• The Latest BlackBerry Spyware Scare: Don't Worry, Yet

  By Al Sacco | 11 February, 2010 06:07

  Here we go again. Another BlackBerry security scare, in which some "noble" researcher explains to all of us blissfully-unaware BlackBerry users that our precious devices aren't nearly as safe as we think they are.

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  Web Threats 2010: The Risks Ramp Up

  In 2010, the threat posed by the web is sharper and more extensive than ever before. Almost any website can now host malware, or forward you to one that does. Indeed, an infection is much more likely to result from a visit to a perfectly legitimate website that has been compromised with a virus or spyware – than from one set up specifically to spread malware. Read More.