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Security researchers from Bitdefender have warned that a new instant messaging Trojan has infected hundreds of computers all over the world.

By Penetrating the Browser, Man-in-the-Browser Malware Can See Virtually Everything that an End-user Can See

Researchers at IntelCrawler have pulled the covers away from a cybercrime operation that has compromised nearly 1,500 point-of-sale (PoS) terminals and other systems around the world. The firm calls the botnet 'Nemanja'. Composed of PoS terminals, accounting systems and grocery management platforms, the researchers said they discovered it earlier this year.

AVAST Software, the Czech Republic-based antivirus company, has shut down its community-support forum after suffering a data breach that affected roughly 400,000 users.

VirusTotal, the popular service that lets users analyze suspicious files and URLs to help facilitate the detection of malware, has launched a Mac OS X version of its VirusTotal Uploader utility.

WASHINGTON - With cybersecurity's most glaring failures in the limelight, many experts say it's time for a new approach.

In a motion submitted on Friday to the United States District Court in the Southern District of New York, the government recommended that Hector Xavier Monsegur, a.k.a. the hacker "Sabu," have his sentence greatly reduced as a result of his cooperation with authorities.

On Monday, representatives of New Zealand’s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) confirmed that the organization’s FitzRoy supercomputer was targeted in a cyberattack last Thursday.

Security researchers from Trusteer have been monitoring a new Trojan which they’ve dubbed Zberp, and is a combination between Zeus and Carberp families of malware.

WASHINGTON - The US House of Representatives passed landmark reforms Thursday curbing bulk collection of Americans' telephone records, the first step toward restricting intelligence-gathering by the National Security Agency since Edward Snowden divulged the secret program last year.

Security experts and eBay have confirmed that a recent user database being advertised on Pastebin was not obtained as a result of the data breach suffered by the online marketplace earlier this year.

Apple has released Safari 7.0.4 and Safari 6.1.4 to address a total of 22 vulnerabilities affecting WebKit, the open source rendering engine that powers the popular Web browser.One of the vulnerabilities, CVE-2014-1346, was found and disclosed by Erling Ellingsen of Facebook. The flaw was caused by an encoding issue in the handling of unicode characters in URLs.

F5 Networks announced on Thursday that it has acquired cloud-based security provider Defense.Net for an undisclosed sum.

French security research company Vupen has published the details of the use-after-free vulnerability its team exploited at Pwn2Own 2014 to hack Mozilla Firefox. At Pwn2Own 2014, the hacking contest that takes place alongside the CanSecWest security conference, Vupen earned a total of $400,000 for demonstrating their exploits against Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Adobe Reader and Adobe Flash. A total of 11 zero-day exploits were used.