More than two months after the discovery of an organized malware campaign targeting dozens of companies in the defense and chemical industries, the espionage hack attack shows no signs of letting … [Read more...]
Fake news of Hugo Chavez’s death leads to malware
Wednesday, 14 December 2011 By
Internet users in Latin America were the intended victims of a malware campaign last week, when an email was spammed out claiming to contain breaking news of the death of Venezuelan president Hugo … [Read more...]
Stolen certificate saga continues; Malaysian government certificate used to sign malware
Tuesday, 15 November 2011 By
Researchers have discovered malware circulating in the wild that uses a private signing certificate belonging to the Malaysian government to bypass warnings many operating systems and security … [Read more...]
Hackers now using Belgian server to collect Duqu data
Friday, 4 November 2011 By
Hackers have been using a server in Belgium to collect data stolen from machines infected with the Duqu computer virus, after authorities shut down another rogue collection system in India, according … [Read more...]
Asian computers spawn most spam
Wednesday, 2 November 2011 By
In cybercrime's mug sheet of top offenders, the "Dirty Dozen" of nations responsible for relaying spam now includes five Asian nations, including South Korea, which had the biggest increase to become … [Read more...]
New zero day vulnerability on Windows linked to Duqu
Wednesday, 2 November 2011 By
In the continuing saga of the malware known as Duqu, CrySyS Lab at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics has announced it was able to acquire a copy of the "dropper" from one of the … [Read more...]
Gaddafi death reports likely to spawn multiple scams; be careful
Friday, 21 October 2011 By
Early reports that deposed Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi may have died after being injured during the fall of his home town of Sirte are likely to become a theme of cybercrime attacks, if past … [Read more...]
Mac OS X trojan innovates
Friday, 14 October 2011 By
Underscoring the growing sophistication of Mac-based malware, a trojan preying on OS X users has adopted several stealth techniques since it was discovered last month. Updates to the Flashback … [Read more...]
Bundestrojan existance admitted by 5 german states (according to Deutsche Welle)
Thursday, 13 October 2011 By
Five German states have admitted using a controversial backdoor Trojan to spy on criminal suspects. Samples of the so-called R2D2 (AKA "0zapftis") Trojan came into the possession of the Chaos … [Read more...]
Failure to patch is biggest reason for Windows malware
Thursday, 29 September 2011 By
Failure to patch third-party applications has become the main reason that Windows machines get infected with malware. Drive-by download attacks from hacker-controlled websites loaded with … [Read more...]
OS X Trojan horse in the wild
Tuesday, 27 September 2011 By
These days when people think of malware and OS X the first name that comes to mind is likely MacDefender or one of its variants, which were rogue utilities designed to trick users into giving up … [Read more...]
MySQL.com used to serve malware
Tuesday, 27 September 2011 By
The MySQL site, whose open-source repository serves some of the most popular Web sites, has been hacked and was being used to serve malware to visitors running Windows before it was cleaned up today, … [Read more...]
Google at war with malware
Friday, 19 August 2011 By
In a post on Google's security blog, Lucas Ballard and Niels Provos, of the Google Security Team say: Google’s Safe Browsing initiative has been protecting users from web pages that install … [Read more...]
Microsoft security website hit by search engine poisoning attack
Tuesday, 12 July 2011 By
Microsoft has disabled the search results on its Security Centre after malware-spreaders abused the function to promote shady pornographic websites serving Trojans as well as cheap thrills. Only … [Read more...]
US does not deny (nor agree) to their involvement of the development of Stuxnet
Monday, 30 May 2011 By
If you want to see a top Pentagon official squirm, tune into CNBC’s cyberwar documentary Thursday night, and watch Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn face an uncomfortably direct question … [Read more...]
