This week at Black Hat, Mac malware expert Patrick Wardle will describe how he used a custom-built command and control server to analyze new spying capabilities in a variant of the FruitFly backdoor.

Website operators running sites on the WordPress platform need to be aware of a massive string of infections that as of Thursday were poorly detected by security products. Researchers at Heimdal Security said the compromised sites redirect victims to other domains hosting the Nuclear Exploit Kit, a potent collection of exploits for vulnerable Adobe products...