Researchers said last week they came across a malicious function that was snuck into a module in Magento in order to steal credit card information.

Banks in Asia and Africa have been targeted with exploits for a zero-day vulnerability in InPage publishing software popular in Arabic-speaking nations.

An obscure Windows feature known as hotpatching, missing in the OS since the introduction of Windows 8, is a preferred tool used by a resourced attack group called Platinum that was uncovered by Microsoft. The group has carried out targeted attacks in South and Southeast Asia since at least 2009, focusing primarily on government interests,...