Zeljka Zorz
Bogus PS4 and Xbox One giveaways popping up
Just in time for the upcoming holidays and gift-giving, Sony has released PlayStation 4 last week and Microsoft is set to release Xbox One next week. But online scammers are …
Facebook scammers impersonate missing persons org to harvest “likes”
Creating a Facebook page, making it popular and followed by many by using a number of approaches, then finally selling it to the highest bidder that’s interested in …
vBulletin.com hacked, hackers trying to sell info on 0-day used
The developers of popular Internet forum software vBulletin have announced late on Friday that their network has been attacked and successfully breached, and that the hackers …
Netflix users in danger of unknowingly picking up malware
Users of Silverlight, Microsoft’s answer to Adobe Flash, are in danger of having malware installed on their computers and being none the wiser, as an exploit for a …
Anonymous hacker sentenced to 10 years in prison
Jeremy Hammond (aka “Anarchaos”), the Anonymous hacker that earlier this year pleaded guilty to conspiracy and hacking charges regarding the much publicized breach …
Safari, Chrome and Samsung Galaxy S4 taken down in Mobile Pwn2Own
Results from the second annual Mobile Pwn2Own competition ending today at PacSec Applied Security Conference in Tokyo, Japan, are in: the successful compromises include …
Spam campaign doubles on threats
Some malware peddlers might be moving on from using the Blackhole exploit kit to deliver malicious code, but others are still not ready to give up on it, as proven by a spam …
Compromised Adobe accounts include military and government users
The Adobe hack is truly gargantuan, what with all the stolen source code of a number of extremely popular software and the exfiltrated database containing user email …
Microsoft announces retiring of SHA-1
Along with the standard security advisories released on this month’s Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has also released a few that announce the company’s intention to …
Sinowal and Zbot Trojan collaborate in new attack
Trend Micro researchers have recently come across an interesting example of malware collaboration involving the Zeus banking Trojan and a new variant of the password-stealing …
Fake Facebook password request email carries malware
Not ones to miss an opportunity, malware peddlers are piggybacking on the fact that Facebook is blocking the accounts of certain users and demanding they change their …
MacRumors forums hacked, 860k user passwords compromised
The popular user forum MacRumors has suffered a breach and is advising the entirety of its 860,000-strong user base to change their passwords as soon as possible. The hack was …
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