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Three-year-old Uroburos rootkit likely created by Russian state-sponsored hackers

Researchers from German antivirus company G Data have discovered and analyzed a complex rootkit with spying capabilities and believe that it has been created and employed by …

300,000 routers compromised in DNS hijacking campaign

Some 300,000 confirmed – but most likely many more – small office/home office (SOHO) routers have been compromised and their DNS settings changed to use two IP …

Zeus retrieves attack list hidden in sunset and cat images

Malware peddlers employing a new Zeus banking Trojan variant have resorted to hiding the malware’s configuration file into innocuous-looking sunset and cat photos, warns …

Mt. Gox users targeted with fake promises of lost Bitcoin recovery

Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox has shared more details about the issues that have led to it filing for bankruptcy protection just as malware peddlers have started taking advantage …

Cyber crooks will go after medical records next

As security firms and law enforcement agencies continue to cooperate and successfully take down botnets, cyber crooks will be forced to look for new and more lucrative …

Netflix users targeted in active tech support scam

Malwarebytes’ security researcher Jerome Segura has recently analyzed a rather creative tech support scam that is actively targeting Netflix users. He doesn’t say …

Cisco offers $300k for IoT security solutions

Cisco has launched a new competition and is calling on “visionaries, innovators, and implementers” to propose practical solutions for issues affecting security of …

Two of every five CryptoLocker victims pay the ransom

Ransomware is one of the most effective means for cyber crooks to “earn” themselves huge sums of money with practically no effort, which explains its popularity …

Mt. Gox Bitcoin exchange files for bankruptcy protection

After a series of bad news from Mt. Gox comes the ultimate blow to its users: the prominent Bitcoin exchange has filed for bankruptcy with the Tokyo District Court in Japan. …

SpyEye and Tilon banking malware have the same author(s)

When first discovered by Trusteer in 2012, the Tilon banking malware received its name because of some similarities with the Silon banking Trojan. As Silon (and Zeus, and …

University of Maryland sets concrete cybersecurity goals in wake of data breach

The individuals affected in the recent data breach at the University of Maryland will be getting five instead of one year of free credit monitoring, the University’s …

Bogus Whatsapp desktop app offer leads to malware

The popularity of the Whatsapp IM service is undisputed – hundreds of millions of users around the world are proof of that. And it is precisely this what makes the name …

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