Zeljka Zorz
Adobe patches Flash Player hole exploited in the wild
Adobe has released a security update for Flash Player for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Android that address the object confusion vulnerability (CVE-2012-0779) that is …
Phishers mimic OpenID to steal credentials
New spam email campaigns are taking advantage of the users’ vague familiarity with the OpenID authentication method to phish their login credentials for a number of …
Walmart gift card scam targets smartphone users
Online survey scams are most often propagated through social network and sharing websites, but occasionally users are “assaulted” directly through their …
1,000+ WordPress sites compromised through automatic update feature
More than 1,000 WordPress blogs have been modified to redirect visitors to sites serving malware, affiliate and pay-per-click redirectors, and low quality PPC search result …
New hacking group hits government websites, leaks stolen data
A hacker group that named itself “The Unknowns” has recently boasted on Pastebin of having compromised a number of government, business and educational websites, …
The difficulties in sizing up botnets
The main metric with which security researchers identify how effective and disruptive specific botnets are is the number of computers they consists of. Estimating their size …
RedKit exploit kit spotted in the wild
A new exploit kit that Trustwave researchers have spotted being used in the wild is aiming to enter a market that is practically monopolized by the widely famous BlackHole and …
“Free additional storage” phishing emails doing rounds
Symantec researchers warn about a variety of fake emails supposedly coming from popular email and online storage services, offering “storage quota upgrades”. A …
Android drive-by download malware served by hacked websites
A number of legitimate but compromised websites have been spotted serving Android malware to unsuspecting visitors, warns Lookout. The downloading of the malware, which poses …
Poison Ivy RAT served by compromised Israeli website
The official website of the Israeli Institute for National Security Studies has been compromised and has been found serving a variant of the Poison Ivy remote administration …
Joint attack by banking Trojan and ransomware
The Citadel malware – a banking Trojan that is based on Zeus Trojan’s source code and whose creators have adopted a Software-as-a-Service approach when it comes to …
Fake PayPal payment notification leads to malware
PayPal might have passed the torch of the most phished brand to China’s Taobao.com, but that doesn’t mean that phishers and other scammers have stopped delivering …
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