Dell SecureWorks revealed a report that shows a considerable increase of 43% in attacks against retailers in the first nine months of 2011, compared to the first part of 2010.
"Based on the attacks we detected in the first nine months of this year, criminals are more aggressively using the web as a primary attack... |
13 October 2011
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The recent announcement of a massive data breach incident at email marketing services provider Epsilon is being exploited by cyber criminals to distribute malware.At the beginning of April, Epsilon Data Management, a subsidiary of Dallas-based Alliance Data Systems, announced that hackers managed to break into its se... |
19 April 2011
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A wave of fake United States Postal Service (USPS) emails currently making the rounds are trying to pass a trojan downloader for a shipping label.The spam emails pose as failed delivery notifications and bear a subject of "Post Express Information. Your package is available for pick up."The contained message claimed ... |
26 March 2011
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Security researchers from Symantec have spotted a new crimeware toolkit being sold on the underground market, which generates a trojan that is exclusively used to distribute malware.Crimeware toolkits are programs that can be used to create customized versions of trojans along with their command and control (C&C) sof... |
19 December 2010
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Security researchers warn about a new wave of fake emails purporting to come from Hallmark, which try to pass a computer trojan as a Christmas card.According to Belgian email security vendor MX Lab, the emails began circulating last week and have a subject of "1st Christmas Card."Their header is spoofed to appear as ... |
13 December 2010
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Security researchers warn that a new trojan poses as a hacking tool to get games for free on Steam, which is advertised via rogue YouTube videos.The attack begins with malware distributors posting videos on YouTube with names like “ALL STEAM GAMES FOR FREE HACK”, “Steam Hack with Download” or ... |
3 December 2010
13:51 GMT |
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A new email-based social engineering attack employing the PDF /Launch technique to infect computers with malware has been spotted in the wild. The malicious messages trick users into opening rigged PDF files by claiming they contain the fresh POP3/SMTP connection settings.At the end of last month, Didier Stevens, an ... |
28 April 2010
04:46 GMT |
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Malware researchers from Sophos antivirus warn about a new technique employed by trojan downloaders in the form of fully-encrypted executables. Previous encrypted malware was keeping the PE header intact and only scrambling its body. Malware writers have historically proven innovative. In fact, the whole IT security... |
17 February 2009
06:51 GMT |
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Just the past week I was talking about how free pornographic content, along with free security solutions, will prevail even against Windows Vista. These two are some of the most prominent incentives used in social engineering schemes in order to get end users to infect their machines with malicious code. Needless to ... |
8 October 2007
12:48 GMT |
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