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Security researchers have come across a series of malicious emails that notify the recipient that he is charged with a traffic offense, urging him to fill a form linked from the message. The malicious messages allegedly come from the Seattle Police Department or the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). Experts from M... |
20 January 2012
10:27 GMT |
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A few days ago we saw how the latest variant of the 2010 Ramnit worm managed to steal around 45,000 Facebook usernames and passwords; but after investigating the matter, the social networking website concluded that most of the data was invalid.
Furthermore, the worm isn’t spreading through Facebook itself, ins... |
9 January 2012
04:57 GMT |
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The malicious worm called Ramnit was discovered in April 2010 and it has been making rounds on the Internet ever since. If at first the worm was infecting HTML and executable files, its latest variant has been spotted by security researchers to target the Facebook accounts of users worldwide.
Seculert reports that o... |
5 January 2012
10:20 GMT |
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After Symantec did a little reverse engineering on the now infamous Stuxnet worm, many started pointing the finger at the US and Israel, especially since it was concluded that the piece of malware was designed to target a specific version of the Siemens SCADA programmable logic controls (PLC) operating in certain nuc... |
12 December 2011
07:16 GMT |
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Security researchers from F-Secure warn about a new computer worm which attempts to brute force connections over the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP).RDP was developed by Microsoft to allow the remote administration of computers via a graphical interface. The technology is present, with limitations in some cases, in all... |
29 August 2011
05:41 GMT |
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Security researchers from Symantec warn that Qakbot, an information stealing piece of malware, has registered an activity spike during April which continued into this month.Qakbot dates back to 2009 and the main infection vector used by its creators are drive-by download attacks that exploit vulnerabilities in outdat... |
23 May 2011
08:13 GMT |
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The latest version of Microsoft’s instant messaging client is superior to its predecessor when it comes down to protecting users against malicious code that spreads itself through the IM network. Windows Live Messenger 2009 customers should consider upgrading to Windows Live Messenger 2011, provided that they&... |
15 November 2010
05:44 GMT |
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Security researchers from Kaspersky have uncovered a Facebook phishing attack abusing the chat feature and stealing accounts at a rate of fifteen per minute.The worm-like attack advertised the phishing URL through Facebook chat messages, which gave it a higher rate of success over the wall spam method, users have bec... |
26 October 2010
08:56 GMT |
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Security researchers warn that a new instant messaging worm uses URL encoding to create misleading links that direct users to fake YouTube pages.
The spam messages are received from friends, who's computers have already been infected, and contain links of the form: http://youtube.com%2Ech[censored]config... |
13 October 2010
12:40 GMT |
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A report coming out of Panda Labs shows an increased trend for new malware and worm attacks to use USB devices as distribution channels.The report places the figure around 25%, so for every one in four USB device, an attack has been reported.Even if email attacks are still predominant, USB threats are on the rise, ma... |
27 August 2010
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According to hundreds of reports posted in the past 48 hours on Russian forums and blogs, there's a new computer worm currently spreading and infecting users on ICQ.It seems that the outbreak started sometime yesterday and manifests itself as a message received from a friend followed by a file transfer request f... |
17 August 2010
12:32 GMT |
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A clickjacking worm that forced hundreds of thousands of unsuspecting Facebook users to unknowingly post spam messages on their profiles, rapidly spread through the social networking website over the weekend. The worm used catchy news headlines to lure its victims into the trap.Clickjacking is a Web attack technique ... |
31 May 2010
11:14 GMT |
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Czech security researchers warn of a worm-like piece of malware infecting Linux-based routers, DLS modems and other embedded devices. The infected devices form a botnet capable of launching Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. According to a report from Computerworld, the researchers have named the worm C... |
22 February 2010
11:33 GMT |
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With the latest update to the Malicious Software Removal Tool, Microsoft is helping customers detect and remove infections produced by one of the most prevalent worms worldwide. According to statistics offered by the Redmond company, via the latest version of the Security Intelligence Report, Worm:Win32/Hamweq is the... |
10 December 2009
13:11 GMT |
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Self-touted security expert Intego has acknowledged and analyzed some of the malware recently targeting jailbroken iPhones, issuing reports that discuss the malware in great detail. Although rather late, Intego claims it has found a way to eradicate the worms from infected devices, without erasing any other content. ... |
10 December 2009
10:27 GMT |
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Swiss iPhone developer Nicolas Seriot has presented his talk on iPhone Privacy (from Geneva) in PDF format showing to the world how a malicious application can harvest personal data on non-jailbroken iPhones just as well. There is no need for the developer of such an app to use private APIs while areas like email acc... |
7 December 2009
04:49 GMT |
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A new iPhone worm, based on Ikee, has been detected in the wild, but unlike its predecessor, it is malicious in nature. The new malware intercepts and steals online banking information from mobile consumers and connects to a master control server in order to receive instructions.At the beginning of this month, the wo... |
26 November 2009
06:18 GMT |
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Sophos’ Graham Cluley has updated his blog with news that the author of the Ikee worm, emerged earlier this month, has gotten himself places, thanks to his malicious feat. Cluley doesn’t care much for the hacker and would rather see him pay for his actions, rather than get rewarded.“The author of th... |
26 November 2009
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In a recent blog post, Sophos’ Paul Ducklin sounds the alarm over a new piece of iPhone malware that apparently uploads stolen data to a Lithuanian server, while each device is assigned a unique ID as a reference for the attackers. Although the intent of the worm is yet unclear, the virus apparently searches fo... |
24 November 2009
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A handful of jailbroken iPhone users who installed SSH from Cydia (in order to connect to their phone and make changes to the filesystem) have found that a hacker has created a worm set to infect them. The worm, affecting SSH-enabled devices whose owners forgot to change the default password, changes the background i... |
9 November 2009
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Worms for iPhone and iPod touch has received an update packed with tons of improvements and fixes. The enhancements have been made largely based on customer feedback and suggestions, says Team17, the game’s developer. Worms version 1.01 contains both major improvements as well as a slew of more minor tweaks an... |
14 August 2009
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Team17 Software Ltd. has released iPhone and iPod touch versions of Worms, one of the world's best known strategy video games. The title is touted as being the first mobile Worms game developed at Team17’s studio “for ultimate authenticity.” “Bringing a zany mix of iconic, crazy weapons a... |
16 July 2009
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Ever since the appearance of consoles, the platform games have been loved by people of any age. Why? The answer is simple: they are easy to play, lots of fun, and, from time to time, they give a little challenge to the player by facing them with terrifying level bosses. One of the best examples in this sense is Donke... |
28 May 2009
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One of the top families of malicious code targeting the Windows platform has evolved with the addition of worm behavior, Microsoft warns. According to data made public via the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report, the Win32/Vundo Trojan infected over 3.6 million computers in the second half of 2008, and occupies th... |
23 April 2009
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Intego, the well-known security firm that provides the widest range of software to protect Mac users from the dangers of the Internet, has announced the discovery of a serious worm that may affect Windows computers - Conficker. Intego claims that the worm has been getting a lot of attention, including some “air... |
7 April 2009
06:45 GMT |
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The Conficker worm proved a perfect fit for this year's April Fools' Day. With the security community holding its breath waiting to witness the evolution of the malicious code, scheduled for April 1, 2009, in order to react with counter measures, Worm:Win32/Conficker.D proved a dud. The worm did evolve to t... |
2 April 2009
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The Worm:Win32/Conficker.D targeting Windows operating systems, including Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP, is set to make yet another step further in its evolution come next week, on April 1, 2009. The worm, which is reported to have infected anywhere from eight to 12 million machines (and even more) since it... |
27 March 2009
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While Microsoft building Windows 7 as the evolution of Windows Vista has its obvious advantages in terms of performance, compatibility and support, it also has a downside when it comes down to security, exposing users of the next iteration of the Windows client to the same risks as its precursor. An illustrative exam... |
20 January 2009
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Worm:Win32/Conficker.B is a new piece of malware targeting a vulnerability in Server Service affecting all supporter versions of Windows, including Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1, and Windows XP SP3. Microsoft published details related to the new malicious code designed to exploit the MS08-067 Critical vulnerability re... |
5 January 2009
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Microsoft confirmed not only that malware attacks designed to take advantage of a Server Service vulnerability, affecting both Windows client and server versions of the platform, were no longer isolated and targeted cases, but also that infections with malicious code had been detected. On November 25, Bill Sisk, Micr... |
26 November 2008
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Experts from the network security vendor Fortinet report that new worms spreading on Facebook are making use of links to pages hosted on popular Google services like Google Reader or Picasa Web Albums in order to bypass security filters and reduce user suspicions.The general propagation of malware like the notorious ... |
30 October 2008
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Last week, Microsoft released an out of cycle patch for a critical vulnerability in the Server service which allows for remote code execution. Security experts speculated at the time that new worms would make use of this vulnerability to spread and not long after, such a component was detected in a new Trojan named G... |
27 October 2008
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Researchers from Finnish security vendor F-Secure have recently analyzed a worm with rootkit capabilities that tries to execute code directly into the OS kernel by exploiting a known Windows vulnerability. This is for the first time when the technique is encountered in such applications.“Most malware with rootk... |
1 October 2008
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Scientists from the Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah found a connection between some genes, which may lead to a healthier and longer life. Based on tests developed on some worms that have identical genetic designs as we do, researchers found that a gene associated with aging and another one l... |
19 September 2008
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NASA confirmed, at a recent space operations meeting (ISS 30P SORR), that a worm had been discovered on laptops on the International Space Station. Even if NASA has not disclosed its name, the malware in question appears to be W32.Gammima.AG and it spreads by copying itself to removable devices. The NASA officials no... |
27 August 2008
19:24 GMT |
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The worm that we previously reported on as being the latest threat to Facebook and MySpace community has been eliminated, as users can no longer click on malicious links. Max Kelly, Head of Security at Facebook, assures that at least Facebook users can forget about the danger and put it behind them."We spent most of ... |
8 August 2008
08:53 GMT |
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One of Adobe's applications, Flash player, is used by two versions of a malicious software in order to infect the computers of Facebook and MySpace social networks users, as we already reported. Users are taken to certain fake websites that promise to reveal exclusive videos of celebrities or hidden-camera foota... |
6 August 2008
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Kaspersky Lab released a warning for MySpace and Facebook users, regarding two new versions of a worm, Net-Worm.Win32.Koobface.a. and Net-Worm.Win32.Koobface.b respectively, that put the security of those who have accounts on the two web services at risk. The MySpace worm creates some catchy phrases that are sent to... |
2 August 2008
05:36 GMT |
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Believe it or not, worms can calculate their way to food through a process roughly equivalent to a derivative in calculus. Unfortunately, humans and other animals are also able to do so, although there is still not enough evidence to support this claim. Basically, worms are able to locate food by tasting the environm... |
24 July 2008
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A report conducted by PandaLabs a month ago revealed that approximately 1 in 5 home computers which have up-to-date security software installed were infected and according to the security company, the situation is almost the same today. According to the findings of the study which included 1.5 million users, 72 perce... |
15 May 2008
05:46 GMT |
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About one month ago, the folks at Panda Labs warned that a new MSN Messenger worm was spotted on the web, searching for vulnerable computers through the popular instant messaging client. The "kissing pig" worm still exists on the web, according to some users, but what's more important is that the majority of ant... |
15 May 2008
04:21 GMT |
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Not long after a mass attack JavaScript injection was reported to have infected hundreds of thousands of websites, a new SQL injection Worm was found loose on the web. According to the ISC(Internet Storm Center) website, a total of 4,000 websites have been found infected, after a quick run at a Google search. The rep... |
8 May 2008
10:28 GMT |
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Users simply like instant messengers and since the companies that built them are continuously improving them on a monthly basis, some of these applications are pretty powerful. However, having such an impressive popularity doesn't necessarily mean that they're 100 percent secure because, according to new fi... |
7 May 2008
08:45 GMT |
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Security company Sophos has published an advisory concerning one of the most popular instant messaging clients on the web, namely Yahoo Messenger. According to the security notification, there's a new worm spotted in the wild which only targets Yahoo Messenger users and attempts to propagate by sending links of ... |
11 April 2008
10:37 GMT |
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Sex is considered the engine of the evolution. Without sex, we would all be similar clones. Sex brings diversity, but also it can repair the effects of negative mutations. Healthy genes from one parent can counteract the presence of a damaged (mutated) gene from the other parent, resulting healthier offspring. Thus, ... |
7 April 2008
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Browsers and operating systems are still the preferred avenue for attacks, vulnerability exploits and spreading malicious code. But at the same time, the consistent effort poured by developers to bulletproof the main attack vectors from Windows Vista to Linux, and from Internet Explorer 7 to Firefox, means that malwa... |
24 March 2008
16:41 GMT |
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Fidel Castro's act of transferring his power to his brother, Raul, just a couple of weeks ago (don't think about it in the Highlander way of taking the other's power!) gave cyber criminals a business idea. Seeing as they would take advantage of anything and not shying away from profiting off of disaste... |
10 March 2008
13:51 GMT |
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The hybrid Trojan/worm malware deployed to gullible Internet users has caused quite a stir in February, according to the latest statistics from Panda Security, formerly known as PandaLabs. The lethal duo coming in one package has comprised 17.6 percent of the total infections happening in the passed month, 2.6 percen... |
4 March 2008
14:56 GMT |
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Usually, when hacking a computer, cyber criminals have to choose one of the seven levels this can be attempted at. All of the reported stories of famous over-protected sites, that have had their security found a match for, have suffered because of this. Just in the same way, Trojans work with your PC on a level under... |
29 February 2008
11:26 GMT |
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While it is the struggle of end users, members of the security industry and ultimately Microsoft itself to keep malware off of the Windows operating system, the Redmond company is preparing a 180-degree shift in this strategy. In this context, Microsoft is proposing nothing less than to put malicious code on the user... |
18 February 2008
05:27 GMT |
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