The Japanese parliament enacted new legislation that makes malware development a crime punishable by up to three years in prison.Up until now, malware writers could be prosecuted only on destruction of property charges if their creations actually caused damage.Under the revised provisions of the Penal Code adopted wi... |
17 June 2011
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The Internet might soon be plagued by new versions of the notorious ZeuS banking trojan because its source code is now freely available online.ZeuS remains the most popular crimeware toolkit despite its development having stopped last autumn when its creator retired.The ZeuS Bot (Zbot) trojan is one of the most succe... |
11 May 2011
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A senior Iranian official accuses Siemens of willingly assisting the Stuxnet creators by providing the source code necessary for them to exploit its software.Iran's state news agency, the Islamic Republic News Service (IRNA), quotes Brigadier General Gholam Reza Jalali as saying the German engineering giant play... |
20 April 2011
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Security researchers worry that ZeuS source code, which is already available for sale on the underground market, could become widely available for anyone to use.The history of ZeuS, one of the longest running and most successful trojans ever created, took an interesting turn last year when its creator decided to reti... |
2 April 2011
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A federal judge has decided for Jason Michael Milmont, the 20-year-old VXer who admitted to be the creator of the Nugache worm, to spend one year of home confinement, followed by five years on supervised probation. Additionally, he has to pay around $37,000 in restitution. The Nugache worm spawned one of the first e... |
30 April 2009
05:43 GMT |
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Cyber-crooks are not only exploiting security flaws in popular software in order to steal from vulnerable and innocent users. Independent Security Consultant Dancho Danchev describes how vulnerabilities in unpatched releases of the Zeus crimeware kit are being exploited by hackers in order to steal resources from the... |
2 March 2009
04:33 GMT |
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David Ernest Everett Jr., from Blaine, Minnesota, has pleaded guilty to computer hacking charges in a federal court. He faces 10 years in prison for installing malware on 1,000 computer servers administered by his former employer and crashing several of them. Mr. Everett, 21, used to work as a tech support staffer fo... |
15 January 2009
05:48 GMT |
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A Russian malware writer announced that he would stop development on the Zlob trojan and switch to the rootkit/exploits scene. However, before completely giving up on his creation, the hacker decided to send a few good thoughts to the security researchers from Microsoft, through a message embedded into a recent varia... |
14 January 2009
03:28 GMT |
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