- By Eduard Kovacs
- July 11th, 2012
Trojan Hides on Google Play as “Super Mario” and “GTA 3 Moscow City”
The malware uses a remote payload to remain undetected on the app market
- By Eduard Kovacs
- July 11th, 2012
Scareware Advertises Shady Sites Before Displaying Fake Infection Messages
The malicious element pushes fake search results, desktop icons and spy apps
- By Eduard Kovacs
- July 10th, 2012
Man-in-the-Mobile Attacks Target the Bank Accounts of Android Users
Individuals from Spain, Portugal, Germany and the Netherlands are potential victims
- By Eduard Kovacs
- July 10th, 2012
“Don’t Forget About Meeting Tomorrow” Emails Carry Malicious “Report.Zip”
The messages are cleverly designed to avoid email filtering systems
- By Eduard Kovacs
- July 9th, 2012
Time Has Run Out for Computers Affected by DNSChanger Trojan
Here's a great tool from Bitdefender that automatically fixes the problem
- By Eduard Kovacs
- July 6th, 2012
Tick Tock: It’s Lights Out for DNSChanger-Infected Computers on July 9 (Video)
Some ISPs will make sure that their customers will have Internet access even after Monday
- By Eduard Kovacs
- July 6th, 2012
Controversy: Google Says Android Spam Botnet Does Not Exist
Some security researchers agree, but others still believe that malware is to blame
- By Eduard Kovacs
- July 5th, 2012
Phonebook-Stealing Trojan Found on Apple App Store and Google Play (Updated)
The malware is designed to send SMS spam to all the numbers from the victim's contact list
- By Eduard Kovacs
- July 5th, 2012
Fraud Alert: ZeuS Malware Steals Banking Details via Fake Login Pages
Facebook, Gmail, PayPal and retail industry customers are targeted
- By Eduard Kovacs
- July 5th, 2012
Android Botnet Used to Advertise Shady Pharmacy Sites, Experts Find
The spam messages are sent via Yahoo's free email service
- By Eduard Kovacs
- July 4th, 2012
Ransomware Crooks: Pay a Fine or We Go to the Police
The victims' files are encrypted and the fraudsters threaten to unmask their "secrets"
- By Eduard Kovacs
- July 3rd, 2012
Citadel’s Developers Fear Being Arrested, Remove Trojan from Open Market
The most sophisticated crimeware tool's authors decided to go deeper underground
- By Eduard Kovacs
- July 3rd, 2012
All Carberp Cybercriminals Arrested, but Infection Rates Still High
ESET and Group-IB researchers have closely investigated the case
- By Eduard Kovacs
- July 3rd, 2012
Boxer SMS Trojan Advertised as Firefox for Android
Users may be tricked into installing the fake app multiple times
- By Eduard Kovacs
- July 2nd, 2012
Blackhole Exploit Kit Versions Found to Include XML Core Services Flaw
For the time being it's not widespread, but that can change at any time
- By Eduard Kovacs
- June 28th, 2012
Citadel Trojan Upgraded to Prevent Virtual Machine Analysis
The RC4 algorithm has been modified to integrate an internal hash
- By Eduard Kovacs
- June 28th, 2012
Zemra DDOS Crimeware Kit Used to Extort Organizations
The threat, active from June 25, costs only $125 (100 EUR)