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Cyber Espionage Attack Hits European Commission

The European Commission and the European External Action Service (EEAS) were targeted in a major cyber espionage attack while preparing for an important EU summit.The BBC cites sources saying the attack is bigger than others that usually hit the Commission's infrastructure."The Commission and External Advisory S...

24 March 2011
09:52 GMT

AutoRun-Based Malware Attacks on the Rise

Czech antivirus vendor AVAST Software warns of a increasing number of AutoRun infection attempts, a trend that is likely to continue this month.According to data gathered by the company from its user base, one in eight malware attacks, out of the 700,000 recorded during the last week of October, came from USB devices...

3 November 2010
14:20 GMT

Popular Kiwi Auction Site Hit by Malvertizement

New Zealand's largest online auction site, Trade Me, has served malware to visitors for over 24 hours last week, after a malicious ad got into the system.According to Alexa, trademe.co.nz has a traffic rank of 1,470 globally and 4 in New Zealand. The site has over 2.3 million registered users and as much as 70,0...

4 October 2010
03:07 GMT

The Pirate Bay Hit by Malvertizements

Hackers have managed to get malicious advertisements listed on The Pirate Bay by exploiting a vulnerability in the advertising software used by the website.The rogue ads attempted to infect visitors with malware, which caused cltomedia.info, the domain they where served from, to be blacklisted by the Google SafeBrows...

14 September 2010
16:58 GMT

The Twitter Malware Problem Is Getting Worse

Using independently developed tools that scan tweets for threats, security researchers from Kaspersky and Trend Micro concluded that the micro-blogging platform has become a popular attack vector. The number of malicious URLs identified on Twitter suggest that the problem is slowly, but surely getting worse. Because...

26 September 2009
05:32 GMT


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