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BitDefender has unveiled a new spam method employed by attackers to deliver an "extremely dangerous" trojan, as the company classified the malware. The hijackers use the name of FedEx, the famous company that, among other things, works in the currier shipping business. Pretending to be part of the company’s sta... |
27 August 2008
11:57 GMT |
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Cyber-terrorists have developed another method to make sure that a great number of people would fall into their trap. Emails with the "We have hijacked your baby" subject are being sent in order to institute terror among the recipients and make them download a piece of malicious software. The body of the message is w... |
26 August 2008
11:46 GMT |
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A British newspaper reported about what it claims to be the biggest identity theft ever. According to the publication, personal information of over 8 million people is now at stake, as it has been intercepted by an Indian terrorist. Reporters say that the man gained access to a Best Western hotel and installed a troj... |
25 August 2008
12:10 GMT |
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Links to a rogue security solution, XP Antivirus 2008, are being displayed by Google's AdSense. As we previously reported, AdSense serves malvertizements that make the most unwary of users follow a link and download a piece of software that has nothing to do with its claimed purpose. The rogue antivirus, instead... |
25 August 2008
10:24 GMT |
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BiDefender has just launched a threat report over the first semester of 2008, which shows that the biggest threat to Romanians' security have been trojans. Seven out of the ten most dangerous malware the researchers found hiding behind what seemed to be legitimate applications were represented by this type of ma... |
14 August 2008
10:08 GMT |
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Senior Technology Consultant Graham Cluley, from security company Sophos, has announced on his blog that Internet users are threatened yet again by a Mal/EncPk-DA infection. This translates into a Trojan:Win32/Tibs.gen!G, which is reported by Sophos to be an average threat to computers. Hackers always keep pace with ... |
13 August 2008
10:57 GMT |
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Joe Stewart, Director of Malware Research at SecureWorks, discovered that a group of Russian hackers used a type of trojan that affected over 378,000 computers. The computers, all part of the same network, were infected via a genuine Microsoft application. Coreflood is the name of the trojan used to steal data from t... |
6 August 2008
06:52 GMT |
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According to Panda Security, a company specialized in providing security software solutions, a new spam campaign has been launched with the purpose of infecting users' machines with a banking Trojan which identified by the previously mentioned firm as Trj/Banker.LGC. People in the English speaking part of the wo... |
22 July 2008
11:41 GMT |
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The Trojan in question has been named Limbo 2, and according to the people who came up with it, the best 10 security software solutions on the market today are not capable of detecting it. Acquiring this malware will set you back about $1,300, but for that amount of money you will get a software product that is uniqu... |
21 July 2008
03:50 GMT |
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ScanSafe, company that specializes in providing Internet security solutions, has recently revealed that the web page for popular British cook Nigella Lawson came under hacker attack, first detected at the beginning of the week. It is believed that visitors to the previously mentioned site may have been infected with ... |
17 July 2008
04:46 GMT |
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PandaLabs, company that specializes in providing security software solutions, has recently announced that a spam message containing malware has surfaced. The message appears to be sent by parcel delivery company UPS, but in fact it is sent by someone who is maliciously trying to infect your system with a Trojan which... |
16 July 2008
06:12 GMT |
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According to Secure Computing, a company that specializes in providing Internet security appliances as security software solutions, there is a new Trojan out there that works by infecting all multimedia files (that would be music and movies) stored on the user's machine. This threat has been identified by the p... |
11 July 2008
03:15 GMT |
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Spammers' imagination is constantly reaching new peaks. The disastrous earthquake that hit China also gave ideas to spammers, who started using headlines referring to the catastrophe in the email subjects. Their purpose - to persuade the users to access a "video" that in fact was an executable file that launched... |
8 July 2008
02:20 GMT |
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Security software provider Kaspersky has just released a top 20 of the viruses that plagued the web last month. The results were not astounding, with the generic Trojan Email-Worm.Win32.NetSky.q still leading the board. As a matter of fact, out of the total 20 malicious programs, 15 were Trojans. In regard to the co... |
3 July 2008
04:45 GMT |
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Fortinet, a company specialized in providing UTM security systems, has recently published a report regarding the threats it detected in June. According to this report, attackers are once again targeting the online gaming industry, after a short downfall in May and April. The password stealing malware is spreading fr... |
2 July 2008
11:19 GMT |
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Joe Stewart, Director of Malware Research with SecureWorks has recently made public the fact that he found a stolen data cache of unprecedented size. AFcore is a Coreflood trojan that has so far been able to avoid detection, using all this time it has been hidden to gather as much private information as possible. Th... |
1 July 2008
04:23 GMT |
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Well, it seems the guys behind iAntiVirus and VirusBarrier X5 knew what they were talking about. Makers of Mac anti-spyware and anti-virus solutions, SecureMac, have discovered what is reported as a new Mac OS X Trojan horse. Dubbed "Applescript.THT Trojan," the malware is thought to have originated via a "hacker" we... |
20 June 2008
17:51 GMT |
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Since the 7.9 magnitude earthquake hit China on May 12, hackers, spammers and fraudsters around the world have been attempting to exploit the tragedy in their own unique way: by developing new earthquake-related attacks which could trick vulnerable users and steal their information or get inside their computers. Toda... |
22 May 2008
02:28 GMT |
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The popularity of the newly-released GTA IV makes new victims on the web as hackers are now looking to exploit new vulnerable computers using the popular game. According to security company DriveSentry, hackers rolled out malware-infected copies of GTA IV on popular file-sharing applications such as Limewire. Once do... |
15 May 2008
06:16 GMT |
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Users simply like instant messengers and since the companies that built them are continuously improving them on a monthly basis, some of these applications are pretty powerful. However, having such an impressive popularity doesn't necessarily mean that they're 100 percent secure because, according to new fi... |
7 May 2008
08:45 GMT |
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If you work in the military and think your email is safe, think again. A rather large scheme has been recently detected by security researchers at the Romanian company BitDefender. The company's head of AV Research, Sorin Dudea, has declared "It's not every day that you stumble on the workings of an honest-... |
6 May 2008
10:49 GMT |
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Scenario: you own a large business and a private investigation firm comes to you and says "Hey, we could give you precious information regarding your competitors at very low prices!". What would you answer? Many businesses turn to such agencies and unfortunately, it isn't such a good thing as it sounds. Mostly b... |
29 April 2008
09:01 GMT |
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Security company Sophos has just published the latest Security Threat Report concerning the first quarter of 2008, revealing that a new malicious website is now detected and blocked every five seconds. This is a time decrease of 9 seconds as the company detected similar websites every 14 seconds, according to the 200... |
22 April 2008
06:53 GMT |
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Finding malicious websites on the Internet or receiving emails with infected files is something usual these days so it's pretty important to have an up-to-date antivirus which would be able to block these threats. However, new infections are born every day so, if you really want to keep your system clean, you mu... |
22 April 2008
05:25 GMT |
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Security company Sophos has reported that a new fake anti-spyware software solution has been spottedon the web, attempting to reach users' computers in order to trick them to buy the full version of the application. Just like many other similar scams in the past, the program launches fake security warnings suppo... |
16 April 2008
06:01 GMT |
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Mac OS X has always been regarded as a secure operating system which cannot be attacked by viruses, Trojan horses, malware or other infections since most of them are focused on compromising Microsoft's Windows. However, it may seem like the rogue security products have evolved a little bit and are now attempting... |
1 April 2008
03:54 GMT |
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Symbian Series 60 owners in China are facing a rather disturbing problem right now, that of the Kiazha-A Trojan, that holds the phone for ransom, according to reports from McAfee. It is a component of a sophisticated mobile malware bundle, dubbed MultiDropper-CR, that infects other devices via Bluetooth or corrupted ... |
5 March 2008
12:41 GMT |
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The hybrid Trojan/worm malware deployed to gullible Internet users has caused quite a stir in February, according to the latest statistics from Panda Security, formerly known as PandaLabs. The lethal duo coming in one package has comprised 17.6 percent of the total infections happening in the passed month, 2.6 percen... |
4 March 2008
14:56 GMT |
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The dangerous Storm Trojan is out in the wild again and lurking, waiting to infect people's computers, and this time the approach is a bit different. It's no longer playing on people's emotions for various holidays like in the past, with Christmas or Valentine's, probably because there aren't... |
3 March 2008
11:41 GMT |
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The usual spam message is easy to recognize for those with the minimum level of know-about, and there aren't many Internet users nowadays that lack any interest in the matter. The methods and techniques used by cyber criminals must evolve continuously because the security companies are hot on their tracks in fin... |
29 February 2008
17:46 GMT |
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Usually, when hacking a computer, cyber criminals have to choose one of the seven levels this can be attempted at. All of the reported stories of famous over-protected sites, that have had their security found a match for, have suffered because of this. Just in the same way, Trojans work with your PC on a level under... |
29 February 2008
11:26 GMT |
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A warning was posted today on the McAfee Avert Labs Blog, announcing that a new Windows Mobile trojan was discovered, trojan that disables the Windows Mobile application installation security on Pocket PCs. Named WinCE/InfoJack and discovered in China, the trojan was created by "a specific website" (its name was not... |
26 February 2008
10:46 GMT |
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In case you were interested, and as a result you are reading this, you would have very likely fallen for the latest Trojan attack to hit the Internet. Receiving a message with the very same title and a "Download Now!" link inside is the sure way to get the Downloader.SQV on your computer and there's no telling o... |
22 February 2008
17:41 GMT |
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Cyber criminals are downright geniuses when it comes to addressing a specific category of people with their malware. Is somebody keen on watching shows on TV rather than on the Internet likely to be very aware of the dangers on the Web? Not likely, although it could happen. What better way to deliver Trojans other th... |
22 February 2008
06:10 GMT |
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Electoral Cyber crime started last October, when the first wave of spam 'advertising' for a candidate was released into the wild. And the wildly election hype that the spammers were counting on did not fail to provide, Ron Paul's supporters falling for the trick. It was later linked to an Ukrainian bot... |
18 February 2008
15:46 GMT |
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With reports about Valentine's Day spams, scams, worms and Trojans coming in as early as the 11th of January, it's a wonder that cyber criminals haven't cooled down and remained contempt with the batch of malware that they have already sent out. I mean they could have taken the day off just to enjoy th... |
14 February 2008
09:28 GMT |
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This one goes out to all the remaining dial-up users all over the world. Be warned! Some cyber criminals will single you just because of it and you don't want to have to fix the damage they'll do. Right now you have a bull's-eye on your balls, because they'll hit you where it hurts most. The lates... |
7 February 2008
15:06 GMT |
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Last week, it was Secret Crush. Today, it is called Rita. Both of them are social networking components that may seriously damage people's computers. Secret Crush was a Facebook application that attempted to drop some sort of malware on vulnerable users' systems. Rita is somehow different. It is a MySpace r... |
14 January 2008
14:31 GMT |
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Microsoft's Internet Explorer is once again the favorite target of virus writers, as another Trojan horse has been spotted in the wild by security vendor Trend Micro. TROJ_PATCH.CD has a high damage potential and may seriously harm the Windows 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP and Server 2003 platforms. The entire infection ... |
11 January 2008
04:03 GMT |
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And... it's here! What seems to be the first Trojan targeting your bank account information is finally here! TROJ_BANKER.MQH comes with a medium damage potential, which underlines the Trojan's capability to reach its goals, in our case - stealing the bank account info. According to security vendor Trend Mic... |
10 January 2008
16:06 GMT |
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I bet you first thought I was talking about a real antivirus... You know, that software application especially created to discover and block harmful files... But AlfaAntivirus is not that kind of program, it is actually a fake antivirus solution that wants to trick people and make them believe they are installing a s... |
7 January 2008
16:06 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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Remember that pay-by-phone exploit that attempted to infect your computer and steal your money? Well, it seems like it is much more dangerous than we've expected. Security company Trend Micro today published an advisory concerning TROJ_RANSOM.B, the Trojan horse that supports the entire attack, saying that it af... |
4 January 2008
02:45 GMT |
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Another day, another scam spotted in the wild. This time, it's a pay-by-phone attack, as the Sunbelt officials named it, because it attempts to steal people's money by phone. Remember that rogue antispyware attacks? Today's scam is pretty similar and let me explain why. First of all, the rogue antispyw... |
3 January 2008
15:11 GMT |
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McAfee managed to cause a serious problem these days as it flagged several legitimate websites as infected. According to several reports, users who installed McAfee's Antivirus were alerted that multiple pages, including Verizon Wireless, Ars Technica, Friendster and ESPN.com, got infected with JS/Exploit-BO, a ... |
3 January 2008
05:34 GMT |
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Here we go again! If 2007 was a pretty busy year when it comes to computer infections, worms, Trojan horses and other types of threats, it seems like 2008 wants to become at least as dangerous as its predecessor. January 1st came with the first Trojan horse of the year as security vendor Trend Micro noted in the last... |
1 January 2008
10:08 GMT |
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Yesterday, the news of the former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's assassination represented the hottest subject on the web, as all the people wanted to find out more details on this topic. Being such a popular subject, the attackers quickly adapted their malicious attempts and created several malicious websites ... |
28 December 2007
03:21 GMT |
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The fake codec Trojans that affected so many websites are back. These days, they are being spread through Google Blogger's pages that host all sorts of content. Yesterday, Alex Eckelberry of Sunbelt informed that an avalanche of fake codecs was discovered on numerous Blogger accounts, which looked similar to the... |
27 December 2007
02:26 GMT |
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Here we go again: another Trojan horse affecting the Windows operating system was spotted in the wild by 2Spyware.com. The security company set a severity scale of 95 out of 100, which means the infection is extremely dangerous for every person affected by it. According to the reports, Tranzhva 1.0 is an Iranian Troj... |
21 December 2007
09:08 GMT |
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Although we're all expecting to see a rise in the number of web attacks, there are only a few weak spam campaigns currently in progress with low damage potential and pretty easy to detect malicious attachments. Security company F-Secure today found another spam attack attempting to deploy an executable file, wh... |
20 December 2007
10:31 GMT |
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