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Toyota accuses ex contractor of hacking, stealing trade secrets

A former contractor of Toyota’s U.S.-based manufacturing company has been accused of hacking into the toyotasupplier.com website, of downloading sensitive proprietary …

Beware of fake Symantec AV notifications

Malware peddlers occasionally take advantage of the good reputation of big security companies to spread their malicious wares, and in a recently spotted malicious email …

Java 0-day exploit added to Blackhole kit, still no news about patch

The recently discovered Java zero-day flaw that has been spotted being used in limited targeted attacks in the wild has created quite a stir. A module that exploits the …

Hackers allegedly breached Saudi Aramco again

Saudi Aramco, the national oil company of Saudi Arabia and the biggest oil company in the world, has issued a statement announcing that it has restored all its main internal …

Fake Facebook photo notifications carry malware

Fake Facebook notifications informing users that a friend has posted a new photo of them on the social network have been spotted hitting inboxes around the world. The emails …

Hackers leak information stolen from over 100 sites

Hacker collective Team GhostShell has posted on Saturday on their Twitter account links to a massive leak that supposedly includes over one million of user record sets stolen …

Critical Java 0-day flaw exploited in the wild

Researchers from security firm FireEye have discovered targeted attacks exploiting a zero-day Java vulnerability to deliver the Poison Ivy RAT onto the unsuspecting …

Dropbox introduces 2-factor authentication

Early this month, popular file hosting service Dropbox confirmed an internal breach the resulted in its European users receiving spam advertising gambling websites, and …

“Tax Payment Rejected” spam campaign

Bogus emails supposedly coming from the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS), informing users that their “tax transaction” has been cancelled and trying to get them …

Crisis malware doesn’t affect most VMware hypervisors

A few days ago Symantec researchers revealed that the Crisis malware is not limited to attacking Mac machines, but has the ability to infect devices running Windows and …

“Compensation for Scam Victims” 419 scam doing rounds

The psychology and economics behind the so-called Nigerian advanced fee fraud scams have been recently been explained by Microsoft researcher Cormac Herley in great detail, …

Female Android users targeted with Loozfon Trojan

An information-stealing piece of Android malware that is currently being used in a campaign aimed specifically at female Japanese users has been spotted by Symantec …

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