14th of May 2013 07:06 GMT
Experts continue to investigate the recent US Department of Labor (DOL) watering hole attack that involved at least nine websites. Security researcher Eric Romang has found that the cybercriminals behind the campaign have also targeted employees of the US Agency for International Development (USAID). One of the nine...
13th of May 2013 03:57 GMT
China is often appointed as being the bad guy of cyberspace, but the country is also a tempting target for cybercriminals. For instance, last year, losses of over $12.5 billion (€9.6 billion) were reported as a result of telecom fraud. Recently, Kaspersky experts were called in by the Beijing Public Security B...
3rd of May 2013 03:22 GMT
Trusteer experts have come across an interesting variant of the Java exploit kit called “g01pack.” g01pack is different from other exploit kits because it delivers its payload via a multistage attack. “The first stage of the attack, the exploit shellcode, executes a second stage, in which a Java cl...
2nd of May 2013 08:41 GMT
In a statement published a few hours ago, the E-Sports Entertainment Association (ESEA) has admitted that its software client hijacked the computers of customers and used their GPUs to generate Bitcoins. The company performed some internal tests with a software client that used the GPUs logged into it to mine Bitcoi...
1st of May 2013 15:01 GMT
Webroot warns that it has recorded an increase in the number of Fake AV scams that leverage the name of Microsoft. One of the attacks it has analyzed involves a fake Microsoft Security Essentials alert that pops up on a website. As long as users ignore these alerts, they have nothing to worry about. However...