Security researchers warn of a new trojan, which is distributed via tax-related spam and is particularly designed to steal digital certificates from infected computers.The new threat, detected by Symantec as Infostealer.Nimkey, arrives on systems as files called irs-pdf-f941.irs.com, report6.com or details.com.The us... |
22 September 2010
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The AMO (addons.mozilla.org) team has announced on its official blog that two experimental Firefox extensions were removed from the repository after they were found to be infected with malware. The add-ons had some 4,600 combined downloads.According to Mozilla, version 4.0 of Sothink Web Video Downloader was infected... |
5 February 2010
10:52 GMT |
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The Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley chapter of United Way of America fell victim to overseas cybercrooks, who attempted to siphon over $150,000 from the charity's bank account. Fortunately, the organization noticed the fraudulent transfers in time and was able to recover the money.This is just one of the ... |
5 February 2010
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Following a flurry of incidents where hundreds of thousands of dollars have been siphoned from the bank accounts of small businesses and public institutions, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the American Bankers Association (ABA) advise using dedicated computers for online banking operations. This unusua... |
4 January 2010
12:28 GMT |
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Security researchers warn of a new malware distribution campaign using incorrect billing as a lure. The spam emails pretend to be payment request notifications and a computer trojan is passed as a tool for blocking them."The emails pretend to come from the 'Customer Support' division of an online banking or... |
19 November 2009
10:16 GMT |
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Four members of a banking fraud ring operating in UK have been sentenced to a total of over thirteen years in prison. The men, who used a computer trojan to get into the online banking accounts of their victims, were arrested in London back in April.In April 2009, we reported on the arrest of nine London-based suspec... |
17 November 2009
10:08 GMT |
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The use of a computer Trojan played a critical role in gathering intelligence regarding a now-destroyed secret nuclear reactor in Syria. The information-gathering program was planted by Mossad operatives on the laptop of a Syrian official while he was staying in London.Journalists from the German publication Der Spie... |
9 November 2009
04:21 GMT |
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Security researchers from Trend Micro have identified a new banking trojan which makes use of a legit security tool in order to uninstall another. The application abused in this case is GMER, a free rootkit-hunting program.This new trojan seems to be targeting Brazilian banks, as it tries to kill a browser security p... |
21 October 2009
07:08 GMT |
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Following a March report from Sophos regarding a Trojan that infects Diebold ATMs and steals credit card data, another similar piece of malware has been analyzed (PDF) by researchers from Trustwave. The malicious application is able to infect Windows XP-based ATMs from multiple vendors and features complex functions.... |
4 June 2009
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A 23-year-old man suspected of having hacked into Department of Defense systems during 2006 has been arrested in Iaşi, Romania, by the local police and the Direction for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (D.I.I.C.O.T.). If found guilty, the hacker risks a maximum sentence of 12 years behind bars. The organ... |
20 March 2009
05:34 GMT |
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Security researchers from antivirus vendor Trend Micro maintain that during the few hours of Gmail downtime, cyber-crooks have moved fast to instrument a malware distribution attack, which employs black-hat SEO and social engineering techniques.The fact that cyber-criminals capitalize on important events in order to ... |
26 February 2009
05:50 GMT |
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