Spyware targeting overseas travelers seeking embassy information gets the boot from Google Play store after a security firm identifies four rogue apps.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation this week urged victims of ransomware to report infections to federal law enforcement in hopes of better understanding the threat.

The news of the week is discussed, including Schneier’s DDoS article, a patched IE/Edge zero day, a new OS X malware detection method, and Google’s Project Zero prize.

Developers behind the notorious Neverquest had a busy summer adding many new features to the potent Trojan.

A Windows Trojan called DualToy has been discovered that can side load malicious apps onto Android and iOS devices via a USB connection from an infected computer. Researchers from Palo Alto Networks said DualToy has been in existence since January 2015, and it originally was limited to installing unwanted apps and displaying mobile ads on Android devices....

A rogue and malicious app that billed itself as a “Guide for Pokémon GO” managed to make it into Google Play’s marketplace. Once installed, the malware-laced app gave attackers root access to any Android device it was installed on. The app, actually a Trojan in disguise, contained a nasty piece of code that went onto...

Civil liberty advocates say a Texas judge got it right when he ruled on a controversial child porn case regarding the FBI’s use of malware to search a computer. Senior U.S. District Judge David Alan Ezra of the San Antonio division of the Western District of Texas court ruled that sending malware to someone’s computer...

When it comes to detecting OS X malware, the future may not be rooted in machine learning algorithms, but patterns and heatmap visualization, a researcher posits. In an academic paper published by Virus Bulletin on Monday, Vincent Van Mieghem, a former student at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, describes how a recurring pattern...

With Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday release tomorrow, the countdown begins for application developers to button down code ahead of Microsoft’s new servicing model starting in October that could present vulnerability issues for some businesses. “Tomorrow it’s going to be business as usual, but it will also raise anxiety as we get closer to October,” said Chris...

When asked to describe what it’s like to deal with the constantly looming threat of ransomware, Chad Wilson, the Director of Information Security at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington D.C., didn’t beat around the bush. “I’ll sum it up in one word: It’s scary,” Wilson said at a Federal Trade Commission workshop Wednesday. “It’s...