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There is new piece of ransomware out there going after the players of some 40 online games in an apparent attempt to target a somewhat younger crowd of computer users.

The final month of summer wasn’t full of cybercriminal stories, but law enforcement groups around the world still found and punished some evildoers.

Read highlights from our top posts in July.

July is over and that means it’s time to look back and observe the latest results of the battle between cybercriminals and prosecutors.

If it is absolutely necessary that you check your email and the only way to do it is on a public computer, forward your email to a disposable email account like Mailinotor or Trashmail that has a short life and a timed expiration.

Criminals invented Cryptolocker, spying malware and Zeus banking Trojan. We have new protection against them.

The first summer month brought us news about the eternal confrontation of law enforcements and cybercriminals. Let’s see who was busted in June.

June was a busy month with hacks and data breaches, privacy, cryptography, and mobile security news, and an update on OpenSSL Heartbleed.

There was a lot of interesting news about hackers and other cybercriminals, so let’s see who has been busted in May.

The criminals continue their bad business, and law enforcement agencies successfully chase them down. It happens every month, so here are the most interesting cases from April.

The criminals continue to undertake their nefarious business and law enforcement agencies successfully chase them down. That happens every month, so here are the most interesting cases from March. A

As always, we continue to closely monitor the progress of law enforcement agencies as they chase down cybercriminals. Here are some cases from the last month. 3 years for DDoS-attack

The year has just begun, but law enforcement agencies around the world have already caught a number of major cybercriminals. As always, we continue to closely monitor the progress of

Non-stop cat and mouse We all need a holiday or at least a weekend to catch our breath a little and get going again. Only the criminal world works non-stop.

Banking trojans are like rats, you kick a rubbish bin and six of them go scurrying off in every direction. Most of them you’ll read about once and never again.

September has come to an end and it’s time to check up on the progress that has been made by police forces and security experts in finding hackers and cybercriminals

What exactly makes a cybercriminal? Well, without getting into the nitty-gritty of what does and does not constitute a virtual crime, how about we just answer the question: “What makes

We’re continuing to watch how law enforcement agencies around the world are progressing in the fight against cybercrime. They’ve been able to keep jailing hackers, both for minor cybercrimes like

We are continuously watching how law enforcement agencies around the world fight cybercrime. With help from the IT industry and experience gained over the years, these agencies have been able

Computers, initially created for military cipher breaking, give everyone an almost perfect way to keep our secrets totally private – through encryption. For a long time strong encryption was only

Botnet is the generic name given to any collection of compromised PCs controlled by an attacker remotely — think “virtual robot army.” The individual PCs that are part of a