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Ransomware that impersonates law enforcement agencies is not new, but recently cybercriminals started serving these malicious elements using compromised sites. One of these sites is Laudree.fr, which belongs to a famous French company that provides luxury cakes and pastries.
Trend Micro researchers identified the ra... |
25 February 2012
02:18 GMT |
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The latest pieces of malware are not only developed to ensure that they cause maximum damage and steal all the sensitive information they can find on the infected devices, they’re also designed to avoid being easily detected by security solutions. Such is the case of Trojan.Dropper.UAJ.
According to Bitdefende... |
22 February 2012
05:18 GMT |
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The scandal that formed around the defunct News of the World (NotW) led to an investigation that revealed a lot of interesting details about how the journalists obtained their information.
But so far no one knew the identity of the hackers that aided the media organization to gain access to the victims’ priva... |
21 February 2012
08:36 GMT |
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An email apparently coming from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) informs the recipient that his IP was identified as distributing copyrighted content. In reality, the string of emails is part of a malicious campaign designed to spread an information-stealing Trojan.
MalwareSurvival informs that t... |
21 February 2012
04:54 GMT |
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Researchers from Barracuda Labs discovered a series of malicious emails that allegedly come from Facebook and bear an attachment that’s allegedly available only if Microsoft Silverlight is installed.
The phony message claims that the user’s account information “has been changed,” but provides... |
17 February 2012
10:41 GMT |
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In the aftermath of the security breach that affected Stratfor at the end of 2011, the company notified customers that they may be targeted by phishing scams and other malicious operations and now, Microsoft researchers came across a new type of malicious message that targets the think tank’s subscribers.
The ... |
15 February 2012
07:53 GMT |
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Security researcher and blogger Brian Krebs has been closely monitoring the Citadel Trojan’s development process and his latest findings reveal that a tight community was formed between the authors and the customers, making the project evolve rapidly.
In practice, the results were observed by Seculert research... |
10 February 2012
03:03 GMT |
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Security experts came across a piece of malware that’s cleverly programmed to steal documents from the infected computer. While this may not be new, the twist to this story is that the malicious element is designed to upload the obtained Microsoft Word and Excel files to the hosting site sendspace.com Trend Mi... |
8 February 2012
05:51 GMT |
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Security researchers identified a variant of the Ice IX malware currently targeting online banking information that belongs to users in the United States and the United Kingdom. This modified version of ZeuS tries to steal not only bank account data, but also information on telephone accounts belonging to the victims... |
2 February 2012
05:05 GMT |
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Two of the leading companies in the security industry, Zscaler and Seculert, released a joint report as a result of a thorough investigation targeting a series of attacks that attempt to stay under the radar by sending fake Microsoft Windows Update HTTP requests.
The researchers reveal that another malware, identif... |
1 February 2012
08:27 GMT |
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After mobile security firm Lookout argued that Android.Counterclank is not a piece of malware as Symantec labeled it, the latter came forward with some new arguments to sustain their initial decision of informing users on the potential dangers. Symantec’s update on the matter reveals that even Google decided t... |
1 February 2012
05:19 GMT |
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As Facebook users are preparing for Valentine’s Day, cybercriminals are relying on the fact that lovebirds may be tempted to install a so-called Valentine’s theme to make their profiles more special.
Trend Micro researchers came across one of these scams that attempts to dupe victims into downloading a m... |
31 January 2012
08:16 GMT |
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There has been a lot of debate lately on how challenging it is to create a software that can automatically break CAPTCHA security codes, some researchers even issuing advisories regarding the creation of strong CAPTCHAs. However, security experts found that a component of the ZeuS-like Cidrex Trojan was able to break... |
30 January 2012
07:39 GMT |
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The malicious Sykipot campaign that’s designed to target various industries in search for corporate secrets has been persistent in the past few months, and Symantec researchers have kept themselves busy trying to find out more information on the operation and the Trojan itself. Their latest investigations reve... |
28 January 2012
06:10 GMT |
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Researchers from Microsoft’s Malware Protection Center came across a social welfare website that was hacked and modified to serve visitors a piece of malware each time they think they download a useful document. The site in question is from Romania and it shows up among the first results in search engines when... |
27 January 2012
09:40 GMT |
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Security researchers found a dangerous MIDI file that could allow an attacker to remotely execute arbitrary code relying on a vulnerability patched up by Microsoft with the Security Updates they released on January 10, 2012. Counting on the fact that many users fail to apply the security patches, cybercriminals soci... |
27 January 2012
07:15 GMT |
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During his expeditions in the hacking underground, security researcher Brian Krebs came across a new variant of the infamous bank-account-stealing ZeuS Trojan called Citadel. Its developers mainly address customers who aren’t satisfied with the support offered by other malware providers.
“Its no secret t... |
23 January 2012
05:58 GMT |
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Carberp, a Trojan mainly designed to steal banking information, often compared to the infamous ZeuS or SpyEye families, has been making rounds again, its latest variant being programmed to steal Ukash voucher numbers and other sensitive data.
Ukash is a brand of SmartVoucher Ltd, created in 2005 and representing an ... |
18 January 2012
05:42 GMT |
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Romania is beginning to look a lot like other countries where Occupy protests are taking place and even though this is not an official Occupy movement and no Anonymous hackers are involved, cybercriminals take advantage of the citizen’s discontent with their president to launch a malware-spreading campaign.
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17 January 2012
04:13 GMT |
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Security experts came across a large number of websites infected with Trojans, exploit kits and other malicious elements that redirect users to well-known malware distribution points.
Avast Virus Lab identified 60 different websites in the past 30 days, all of them being heavily infected. This is especially dangerou... |
13 January 2012
07:09 GMT |
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Sykipot, the well-known Trojan that’s been targeting US companies since 2007, has been found by security researchers to have an improved version which is able to hijack smart cards utilized by the United States Department of Defense (DoD). Researchers from AlienVault Labs reveal that cybercriminals attempt to... |
13 January 2012
05:23 GMT |
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Emails that pretend to come from New York-based energy company ConEdison, informing recipients that their latest bill is attached, actually hide a dangerous variant of the Zbot malware.
M86 Security Labs inform that the email bears the subject “Billing-Summary-ConEdison as of <Date>” and the at... |
13 January 2012
03:56 GMT |
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After the extensive analysis of a large number of Stuxnet and Duqu drivers, Kaspersky Lab experts concluded that the two Trojans, along with other pieces of malware, were created by the same team, using a platform called Tilded, created around 2007-2008. They believe that Tilded (named so because its authors tend to... |
30 December 2011
14:41 GMT |
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Researchers from F-Secure came across a large number of Trojans that were initially designed to seamlessly send SMSs to premium rate numbers with the purpose of filling the pockets of the cybercriminals who launch them. The only problem is that the latest series of these malicious apps contain a bug in the source cod... |
28 December 2011
09:10 GMT |
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The recent passing of the Korean leader Kim Jong-il was picked up by most of the new publications around the world and because it’s still a hot subject, cybercriminals began relying on it to spread their malicious files. An email sample provided by Trend Micro quotes a CNN headline that refers to the death of ... |
21 December 2011
09:44 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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Email messages pretending to originate from the Federal Deposit Insurance Company (FDIC) have been seen landing in inboxes these days, alerting the recipient on an “important information” about his bank.
The emails appear to be coming from a spoofed address that replicates a legitimate one, reports Mxlab... |
8 December 2011
14:51 GMT |
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Dutch speaking users are targeted these days in a spam campaign that tries to confuse them in order to get them to click on a link.
“Good morning, The answer to your question about the profile on the website 30.11.2011. [LINK] We are pleased to collaborate in the future,” reads in Dutch the sample prov... |
8 December 2011
05:29 GMT |
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Cybercrooks will rely on any news that may present interest to spread their malicious campaigns, but sometimes they really become original and make stuff up themselves. This is the case in the latest spam campaign where spammers are warning Internet users on epidemics breaking out in the recipient’s country. S... |
8 December 2011
04:37 GMT |
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One of the developers of a network exploration and security auditing tool called Nmap is accusing CNET of bundling free software with Trojans and shady toolbars, and serving them on their Download.com website. Gordon Lyon, also known as Fyodor claims he discovered that Nmap and other free applications such as VLC ar... |
6 December 2011
05:52 GMT |
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A prominent security researcher warned Apple about a dangerous vulnerability in iTunes roughly three years ago, yet the Mac maker waited until last month to patch up the Trojan horse.Security writer Brian Krebs should know - he was the first person to spread the word about the vulnerability in July 2008. Seeing how A... |
2 December 2011
05:01 GMT |
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Smaller companies from the education and hospitality industries were found to be infected with a Trojan that targets credit card processing and point of sale (PoS) devices to steal highly valuable financial information.
Sophos reports that the Trojan installs itself as a service called rdasrv in Windows that's ... |
30 November 2011
07:55 GMT |
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The Ghost Panel, utilized by cybercriminals who rely on ZeuS to complete their malicious campaigns, now benefits from a graphical redesign that tries to bring the Christmas spirit into the black hearts of hackers.
Underground forums now advertise the classic Ghost web panel with a deferent skin that says “Merr... |
29 November 2011
14:41 GMT |
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A Danish security company called CSIS stumbled upon a worm that spreads from one Facebook customer to all the ones found in his contact list.
GFI reports that the worm relies on stolen Facebook account credentials to spam all the friends of the victim by advertising a link that allegedly points to a jpeg image file... |
29 November 2011
07:19 GMT |
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The FakeScanti fake antivirus family has a new addition called AV Protection 2011, which uses a number of techniques to make sure the infected device is left vulnerable to all sorts of malicious elements.
GFI experts observed the infection patterns of this fake antivirus that, once it lands on a system, it tries to ... |
29 November 2011
04:32 GMT |
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A piece of software that's advertised as being able to hack into any Facebook account is being highly promoted on shady forums and in Pastebin posts.
In fact, the tool can't actually break any accounts, except maybe for the bank accounts on those who try to use it.
“Finally, the real Facebook ha... |
19 November 2011
05:39 GMT |
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F-Secure, the people who in October sounded the alarm on the Flashback malware emerging on Mac OS X, have announced today that an updated version of DevilRobber is on the loose.“We found an updated version of Backdoor:OSX/DevilRobber, which we posted about earlier,” writes Wayne over at the F-S... |
16 November 2011
10:12 GMT |
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Mac users looking to stay out of harm’s way may have taken notice of a new blog entry by Intego, "the Mac security specialist", whose VirusBarrier X6 has been trained to detect a new type of malware that’s doing the rounds as of late.Although documented by several security companies already, of which Inte... |
2 November 2011
05:59 GMT |
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A security alert from Intego reveals that Mac users are being targeted by newly found malware that poses as a Flash Player installer package.The news comes just days after the discovery of a new Mac Trojan, and around the same time Softpedia posted a short interview with Sophos’ senior technology consultant, Gr... |
27 September 2011
08:47 GMT |
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People have been receiving emails containing lawsuit threats from nonexistent companies which claim that their email addresses are being bombarded with unsolicited messages.
Subject such as We will be impelled to sue you, We are going to sue you, You are sending add messages or A message from our security service... |
21 September 2011
08:14 GMT |
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A warning message from Microsoft turns out to be a scam that blackmails people into handing them over amounts of money, supposedly taken for the activation of the product.Cybercriminals have just created a new method of scaring unsuspecting victims. The new virus finds its way into the computer's registries and ... |
9 September 2011
10:46 GMT |
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Security researchers from Sophos warn about a wave of malicious emails posing as official notifications from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).The rogue emails bear a subject of "FDIC notification" and have their headers spoofed to appear as originating from a no.reply@fdic.gov address.As most spam ema... |
30 August 2011
09:53 GMT |
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Security researchers warn of a new wave of spam emails posing as automated messages from Xerox WorkCentre Pro multifunctional devices that carry malicious attachments.The Xeros WorkCentre Pro devices are popular and likely to be found in many business offices. This suggests that the primary targets of this campaign a... |
25 August 2011
10:52 GMT |
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Security researchers from Trend Micro have identified a commercial service that allows people to distribute a mobile trojan and receive the data stolen by it."We’ve been reporting about several NICKISPY variants—Android malware that can monitor a mobile phone user’s activities and whereabouts like S... |
20 August 2011
07:23 GMT |
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Security experts warn of a new wave of emails carrying malicious attachments and posing as invoices from various companies.The subject of the rogue emails caries but is of the form "Re: Inter-company inv. from [company name]" or "Re: Corp. invoice from [company name]."Beazer Homes, KPMG, Miltek, Kraft Foods, and Safe... |
19 August 2011
14:57 GMT |
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Security researchers have uncovered a new trojan which is capable of obtaining root access on Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) by incorporating a known exploit.The new piece of malware was discovered by researchers from North Carolina State University, the same researchers who discovered other Android trojans in the past, i... |
19 August 2011
02:55 GMT |
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Security researchers have stumbled across an Android game that appears to have been trojanized by animal rights activists in order to shame its users.The controversial game is called "Dog Wars" and allows players to raise virtual dogs and pit them against each other.Obviously, this kind of actions, even if only virtu... |
18 August 2011
13:59 GMT |
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Security researchers from Symantec have identified a new trojan that uses the graphic card resources of infected computers to mine Bitcoins on behalf of its authors.Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer cash-like virtual currency that can be exchanged by users without the need of a central bank or payment processing service.Beca... |
18 August 2011
11:04 GMT |
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Security researchers from Trend Micro warn of a new information stealing Android trojan that disguises itself as an app for Google's new social product Google+.This latest threat is a variant of a recently discovered trojan called ANDROIDOS_NICKISPY which is able to record phone calls.This new version stands apa... |
15 August 2011
02:19 GMT |
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Security researchers from Sophos warn of fake emails purporting to be Firefox update notifications and directing recipients to a password-stealing trojan.The emails bear a subject of "New version released" and have their header spoofed to appear as if they were sent from a @firefox.com email address. The contained me... |
8 August 2011
10:45 GMT |
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