U.S. officials said Tuesday that the FBI and its European partners infiltrated and seized control of a major global malware network used for more than 15 years to commit a gamut of online crimes ...

Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles have accused a Russian national with leading a group of cyber criminals that developed and deployed malware infecting thousands of computers worldwide, installing ...

Ransomware is a debilitating form of malware that breaks into a system and locks users out by encrypting all of their files. That data is then held as “ransom” until the hacker’s demands are met. The ...

The U.S. government has indicted Russian national Rustam Rafailevich Gallyamov, the leader of the Qakbot botnet malware operation that compromised over 700,000 computers and enabled ransomware attacks ...

Peter Yuryevich Levashov, 38, of St. Petersburg, Russia, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Hartford, Conn., to offenses stemming from his operation of the Kelihos botnet, which he used to ...

The New York Times ran an op-ed piece at the beginning of January about how a woman had to help her mother deal with a computer virus, but this was no ordinary virus that a purge of a hard drive or a ...

RALEIGH, North Carolina (WTVD) -- Law enforcement officials said more companies in the U.S. may have been affected by the global ransomware cyberattack but haven't yet come forward to report it. There ...

Apple fans used to brag about how their operating system of choice was virus free. Now that Macs are more prominent, so too are viruses. The latest sign that Apple devices have become big enough to ...

If a product is offered to consumers for free, no strings attached, then the consumer is the product: Such seems to be the message from US officials on "free" file conversion websites. The Federal ...