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4,300+ compromised WordPress blogs poison Google Image Search results

Google Image Search has for a while now been littered with images that lure users to compromised sites that serve as doorway pages to other malicious sites. Part of the …

Facebook mobile users get password reset option

Facebook has announced it will be adding a very welcome security feature for the 250 million users accessing the social network through their mobile devices – the …

Malicious fake Firefox update spam run

Fake notices about a Firefox update are again targeting the browser’s users, says Sophos. A rather plain message supposedly coming from Mozilla instructs users to follow …

Big corporations “hacked” in Defcon social engineering contest

Most of the recent high-profile cyber attacks against corporations and government organizations have one thing in common – they all started with a successful social …

SMS spying Android Trojan triggered by keywords

Another week, another trojanized Android app. And, according to Trend Micro researchers, this one has a functionality that differentiates it from similar previous ones: it …

Anonymous dumps US law enforcement, Brazil’s Federal Police data, hacks Syrian MOD website

It has been another busy weekend for the AntiSec initiative. First Anonymous and LulzSec released a 10GB data dump consisting of the information pilfered from the servers of …

“Fidel Castro died” spam run leads to malware

Malware pushers have never balked from using news about a celebrity’s death to trick people into downloading malicious payloads. They also have no problem with faking …

Was your company one of the targets of Operation Shady RAT?

“I divide the entire set of Fortune Global 2000 firms into two categories: those that know they’ve been compromised and those that don’t yet know,” …

Spam king facing criminal charges for Facebook spamming

Sanford “Spamford” Wallace has long been a thorn in the side of social networks and has already been successfully sued in civil court by the FCC, MySpace and …

DHS equates Anonymous with APTs

Despite judging Anonymous’ tactics, techniques, procedures and tools to be rudimentary, the US Department of Homeland Security equates their successful deployment with …

Coding error reveals RSA attackers operated from China

A simple error message returned by a server to which a malware sample was trying to connect revealed to Dell SecureWorks researchers the origin of the RSA attack, says Joe …

Cisco warranty CDs take users to malware site

Cisco has issued a warning about information packet and warranty CDs shipped to its own customers between December 2010 and August 2011, saying that they contain a reference …

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