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Morto worm spreads via RDP, brute-forces Administrator accounts

There’s a new worm in town and it’s the first one that spreads by taking advantage of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). “Once a machine gets infected, the …

Fake Facebook friend request, now with hidden iFrame

A slight variation of last week’s Facebook friend request spam email campaign has been spotted targeting the social network’s users, and this one employs a …

Google search results much cleaner than in 2010

It used to be that among the first ten pages of search results for popular terms, up to 90 percent of the offered links would take the users to a malicious page serving …

Is this the phishing email that caused the RSA breach?

“I forward this file to you for review. Please open and view it,” says simply the email that is thought to have been the means of deploying the backdoor that …

Illegal keygen for well-known AV solution leads to infection

An illegal key generator for the recently released latest version of the TrustPort Internet Security solution brings big trouble to unsuspecting users, warns BitDefender. …

Bitcoin mining botnet also used for DDoS attacks

A recently discovered P2P Bitcoin mining botnet has acquired DDoS capabilities, warns Kaspersky Lab expert Tillmann Werner. It’s main reason of existence has so far been …

Zeus rival boasts of eluding tracker services, fails

Kaspersky Lab expert Jorge Mieres wrote yesterday about Ice IX – the first crimeware based on the leaked Zeus source code. “Ice IX Botnet is the first new …

Bogus emails delivering scanned documents carry malware

Emails posing as scanned documents sent from a Xerox WorkCentre Pro photocopier are again being sent out by malware peddlers, warns Sophos. This is not the first time that …

“Free Facebook Credits” scam

After a rather long time, Facebook users are again seeing offers of “Free Facebook Credits!” on their News Feed. Those users who are not aware of the fact that …

“Apache Killer” tool spotted in the wild

The developers behind the open source Apache Foundation issued a warning for all users of the Apache HTTPD Web Server, as an attack tool it has been made available on the …

Domscheit-Berg says WikiLeaks is lying, new batch of cables released

Following WikiLeaks claim that among the 3,500+ unpublished files destroyed by former WikiLeaks member Daniel Domscheit-Berg were a number of highly sensitive documents …

Install one Trojan, get three more

Downloader Trojans are often used by cyber crooks to thoroughly infect systems in order to extract anything that might be of value to them. Trojan.Badlib is a particularly …

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