The Asprox botnet, initially exclusively used for phishing scams, is now an SQL injection vector for website attacks.

If the law can ever find him, the spam king owes $223 million to the popular social networking site MySpace.

Microsoft fixed six vulnerabilities, three of them rated critical, with four patches in its May Patch Tuesday round this week.

A new type of spam focuses on consumers' frustrations with high gas prices, according to McAfee Avert Labs.

In a civil action, the Federal Trade Commission slammed the door shut on spammers that spewed unsolicited emails numbering in the millions.

Users of Yahoo's search engine can now traverse the internet with some body armor thanks to a partnership with McAfee that was announced Tuesday.

Security researchers recently found a server being used to harvest private information consisting of stolen data from 40 international businesses, as well as health-related information on patients worldwide.

The Mozilla Foundation's Mozilla Messaging subsidiary has released patches for five flaws in its Thunderbird e-mail client.

The Storm Worm botnet is just a fraction of its original size, but malware remains on the rise, according to one email security firm.

Researchers at an Eastern European security company have uncovered a spam-sending scheme of "Byzantine complexity" that attempts to use military and university email servers to send junk email