Malware includes viruses, worms, adware, spyware, and ransomware — they all work differently but tend to cause similar ...

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Adware company Zango Inc. profits from copyright infringement, a Harvard University researcher charged today, after the company claimed that sites serving up links to pirated movies were operating ...

The malicious apps were not listed on the official Google Play Store and were instead found on third-party app store websites discoverable via Google Search, according to Bitdefender. Our team tests, ...

Two anti-spyware bills are being readied in time for a hearing Thursday in the U.S. House of Representatives. The measures, one sponsored by a California Republican and the other by a Washington ...

New York state has gone on the attack against spyware and adware by filing a lawsuit against a Los Angeles-based marketing company that allegedly installed the “invasive” software onto consumers’ ...

This is a guest post by Malwarebytes security researcher Pieter Arntz who takes a look back at the early 2000s when he was not employed in the cybersecurity industry but was part of a group of expert ...