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Since the highly expected games Defense of the Ancients (DotA) 2 and Diablo III beta versions were released for testers, cybercriminals began posting fake game variants and cracks that carefully masquerade malicious backdoor Trojans which give them access to infected computers.
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7 January 2012
06:52 GMT |
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Another rogue antivirus solution has been spotted by security experts from the Malware Protection Center, infecting the computers of unsuspecting user who may be duped into purchasing licenses or premium versions. Antivirii 2011 is the name of this malicious app that keeps informing internauts on numerous Trojans, R... |
13 December 2011
14:01 GMT |
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Even though at the end of October the security firm Symantec published a paper on the so-called Nitro attacks that target secrets from the chemical industry, a report issued yesterday states that the same hackers are still active.
The methods utilized by the crooks to infiltrate chemical companies are basically unch... |
13 December 2011
08:15 GMT |
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The fact that the use of regional software leaves systems just as vulnerable as the use of international brands is proven by the latest cybercriminal operations which relied on a weakness in Hancom Office, a text processing software mainly used in Korea.
Symantec researchers came across a piece of malware that begin... |
24 November 2011
05:53 GMT |
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The Texas, Austin based Intego have recently made a new blog entry to highlight a poor attempt on behalf of Microsoft to warn Mac users of a potential security threat targeting Mac OS X.While Microsoft’s ‘discovery’ and blog post are well intended, Intego maintains that the Windows maker is naive in... |
27 July 2011
06:05 GMT |
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Security researchers warn of a newly identified Mac backdoor that was found in a malicious archive uploaded anonymously to Virus Total last month.The Virus Total archive is called "PortalCurrent events-2009 July 5.rar" suggesting that it's a local copy of the Wikipedia July 5, 2009, current events page.The archi... |
26 July 2011
10:08 GMT |
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Unidentified attackers have managed to backdoor the official vsftpd source package prompting the project's administrator to issue an alert and switch hosting providers.Vsftpd is a popular FTP daemon used by some important open source projects. It is developed and maintained by reputed vulnerability researcher Ch... |
4 July 2011
05:33 GMT |
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The WordPress team has decided to reset everyone's password on WordPress.org, BudyPress.org, and bbPress.org websites, after discovering that several plugins were rigged with backdoors."Earlier today the WordPress team noticed suspicious commits to several popular plugins (AddThis, WPtouch, and W3 Total Cache) c... |
22 June 2011
04:34 GMT |
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A new piece of Android malware that functions as a backdoor encrypting the root exploits used in order to make it harder for security applications to detect it was discovered in the wild.The threat was found by researchers from North Carolina State University on non-official Chinese Android app markets and forums.The... |
7 June 2011
05:48 GMT |
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New rogue emails posing as official Facebook communications lead users to a website distributing a backdoor as an application called Facebook Messenger.The emails bear a subject of "[user] listed you as his uncle" and make use of the real template corresponding to real Facebook notifications.The body message informs ... |
18 April 2011
07:45 GMT |
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A drive-by download attack launched from the compromised UK website of an international human rights organization exploited the latest Flash Player zero-day vulnerability to infect visitors.According to security researchers from Armorize, the attack uses a technique dubbed drive-by caching to deliver the malware and ... |
18 April 2011
03:57 GMT |
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Security researchers have identified a new trojan which incorporates the popular TeamViewer remote control software to allow fraudsters to perform unauthorized online banking transactions from infected computers.The piece of malware was discovered by experts from Group-IB while performing a forensic investigation on ... |
17 January 2011
01:00 GMT |
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Microsoft extended the capabilities of a free security solution it’s offering to all Windows users so that it can tackle the Win32/Qakbot family of backdoors. Also known as Bzud, Qbot, and Pinkslipbot, Qakbot is a piece of malicious code with multiple malicious components designed to hand over access and contr... |
17 December 2010
03:04 GMT |
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Security researchers from Symantec warn that malware distributors are piggybacking on the WikiLeaks news storm in order to spread their malicious programs.At the beginning of last week, WikiLeaks started publishing leaked U.S. Department of State cables that give a clear insight into the country's foreign relati... |
8 December 2010
09:11 GMT |
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Unknown attackers managed to compromise the main distribution server of the ProFTPD Project and rigged the source code with a root shell backdoor.ProFTPD is a very popular open source FTP daemon (server) capable of running on most UNIX-like systems including Linux, BSD, Mac OS X and Solaris.The software is distribute... |
2 December 2010
06:59 GMT |
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A new backdoor specifically designed to target corporate networks for the purpose of stealing confidential documents, has been identified in highly targeted attacks.The sophisticated piece of malware was discovered by researchers from security vendor FireEye, who warn that it gives attackers complete control over the... |
25 November 2010
03:36 GMT |
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Security researchers from antivirus vendor BitDefender warn that the Nobel Peace Prize is being used as a lure in a targeted email attack in order to infect users with a backdoor.The fake emails purport to come from the Vice President of Strategy of the Oslo Freedom Forum and try to pass themselves as invitations to ... |
15 November 2010
13:30 GMT |
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Security researchers from FireEye have identified a new attack targeting the recently disclosed Internet Explorer vulnerability, which employs a more reliable exploit and distributes a different backdoor.This past Tuesday, Microsoft confirmed the existence of an yet unpatched critical remote code execution vulnerabil... |
5 November 2010
14:27 GMT |
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Security researchers from Trend Micro warn that a new spam campaign circulating on Twitter attempts to infect users with backdoors. The attacks make use of black hat search engine optimization techniques specifically adapted for the micro-blogging platform."Over the past two weeks, several Twitter accounts were creat... |
30 June 2010
06:57 GMT |
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A new piece of malware is capable of killing the Windows boot process, according to Microsoft. Win32/Yonsole.A is a backdoor Trojan, a term that defines a piece of malicious code designed to compromise computers and subsequently connect to a server controlled by the attacker, receive and execute various instructions.... |
21 June 2010
09:18 GMT |
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The UnrealIRCd project administrators announced during the weekend that the Linux installation package for the latest version of the IRC server software contained a trojan. The backdoored source tarball was distributed through the official repository and many of the mirror servers for the past eight months without an... |
14 June 2010
10:57 GMT |
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The fact that attackers were using infected pre-release copies of Windows 7 to spread their malware to unsuspecting users is simply an example of the most recent releases of the Windows client being turned into vessels for malicious code. Fact is that pre-release versions of Office 2010 were also infested with malwar... |
21 October 2009
14:01 GMT |
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An unsigned component called pifts.exe that was pushed by Symantec to its customers created quite a stir on the Internet yesterday, even raising several conspiracy theories. The malware distributors did not miss the chance to target the massive amount of users searching for information about the curious file and inje... |
11 March 2009
07:02 GMT |
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Security researchers from antivirus vendor Trend Micro warn of a new strain of malware that targets a recently-patched vulnerability in Internet Explorer 7. Successful exploitation results in remote code execution in the form of a malicious .dll file. During "Patch Tuesday" last week, Microsoft addressed a critical ... |
18 February 2009
06:26 GMT |
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Microsoft confirmed not only that malware attacks designed to take advantage of a Server Service vulnerability, affecting both Windows client and server versions of the platform, were no longer isolated and targeted cases, but also that infections with malicious code had been detected. On November 25, Bill Sisk, Micr... |
26 November 2008
08:43 GMT |
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Symantec has just discovered a new spoofed email circulating in Japan after multiple local companies confirmed the fact that they had received emails apparently sent by a Japanese government agency. According to the security company, the email informs the receivers that the government has made some organizational cha... |
14 April 2008
06:56 GMT |
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A new Microsoft update threatens Windows users with the expiration of their copy of the operating system unless deployment is completed within half a day. This is obviously nothing but a fake Microsoft update spammed to spread malware. Sunbelt Software Chief Executive Officer, Alex Eckelberry, warned of the existence... |
22 January 2008
04:55 GMT |
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In case you're one of those who analyzed the new year and observed that 2008 didn't bring us any backdoor, I got one for your: BKDR_ASPROX.B is that kind of infection affecting most Windows versions, including 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP and Server 2003. But, what's worse is that it has a high damage potentia... |
14 January 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Christmas has come and gone so the use of infected ecards and season greetings is not so popular anymore. But today's hackers / attackers / spammers / whatever you want to name them seem to be working 24 hours a day, as new techniques, exploits and computer infections are released in the wild every day. Today, w... |
7 January 2008
13:31 GMT |
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After a powerful spam campaign containing malicious Word documents has been spotted on the web, a new email attack based on PowerPoint slideshows targets our computers. JM Hipolito of Trend Micro wrote, a few days ago, that the TROJ_PPDROP.K Trojan horse was first detected in a spam message containing the PowerPoint... |
4 January 2008
10:46 GMT |
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Backdoor.Hupigon.aahh is the newest threat that may assault your computer, but this time, it may be a really important danger. According to SpywareRemove.com, the backdoor attempts to deploy its files through browser vulnerabilities discovered on your computer, but it may also be installed by email. It seems like Bac... |
28 December 2007
09:41 GMT |
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OK, I get it, Christmas is one of those times of the year when all sorts of infections rise up and become extremely dangerous for every unpatched system. There have been so many security reports that it makes me think no one is safe these days. But, let's see one more threat which seems to be placed among the mo... |
27 December 2007
05:32 GMT |
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Supposing you were a hacker, how would you try to get control over a computer connected to the Internet? Obviously, by exploiting a vulnerability in the software installed on the system, or by dropping an infection on it. Today's piece of news refers to the second solution, as one more Trojan file is being used... |
18 December 2007
16:06 GMT |
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BKDR_HUPIGON.IFZ is a fresh piece of backdoor, which targets most Windows versions including 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP and Server 2003. Security company Trend Micro set a high damage potential along with a low overall risk rating and a low distribution potential. However, the backdoor can easily infect your computer, as i... |
13 December 2007
09:26 GMT |
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We've seen similar infections in the past, but since this is pretty new, it might manage to bypass the antivirus protection and install on your computer. Security company Trend Micro discovered BKDR_DARKMOON.AH, a new backdoor affecting the Windows operating systems which attempts to open a port in order to allo... |
27 November 2007
09:31 GMT |
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