Researchers at NQ Mobile and North Carolina State University have found Android malware circulating in the wild that appears to me to be test code by attackers to see how they can exploit vulnerabilities in the Android mobile phone operating system. The code acts like a traditional PC-based botnet, in that once installed on the [...]

In my role at the Anti-Phishing Working Group (www.apwg.org), I get to learn all about the latest kinds of Internet fraud. For a decade now, we have been dealing with scammers, based in Nigeria, who send scam emails such as “You have inherited $5M. Please contact us.” (known as a 419 scam). There have been [...]