Zeljka Zorz
Phishing scam and malware distribution scheme combined
The Facebook phishing campaign spotted yesterday turned out not to be so unimaginative after all. F-Secure researchers decided to see it through and entered login credentials …
Cricket World Cup starts, scammers follow
The Cricket World Cup started on Saturday, and both the International Cricket Council and various security experts are issuing warnings to fans regarding likely cyber scams …
Libya practically offline, bit.ly still working
As Libya descends into a vortex of protests and violent retaliations for the same – courtesy of the country’s long-lived president Muammar al-Gaddafi – the …
Vulnerability allows phishing messages on RapidShare.com
An improper input validation vulnerability discovered recently by M86’s researchers could be used to create phishing messages targeting RapidShare users. The discovery …
Can employers demand access to your Facebook account?
Most people consider their Facebook profile and its contents private and sacrosanct, but sometimes companies don’t agree with this assessment. The latest instance of …
Ambitious malware variant signed with fake digital signature
New Zeus variants and spam campaigns that try to spread them far and wide are almost a daily occurrence, but once in a while some get more attention by security researchers …
A lesson to learn from the HBGary breach
As you might have already read, the HBGary and rootkit.com breach by Anonymous was not executed by using obscure techniques or unknown vulnerabilities – quite the …
Facebook users targeted by unimaginative phishing campaign
A phishing campaign targeting Facebook users is currently under way and lures users with messages coming from compromised accounts seemingly containing links to various …
Canadian government networks breached by Chinese hackers?
When it comes to covert cyber attacks on government networks, it somehow seems that they can always be traced back to servers in China. It is always acknowledged that that …
Moderately critical MS Windows vulnerability revealed
Information about a critical Microsoft Windows SMB browser election request parsing vulnerability turned up two days ago on the Full Disclosure mailing list and further …
A Trojan-Clicker for Android spotted
A new Android Trojan – dubbed HongTouTou or ADRD – has been spotted targeting Chinese-speaking users. Repackaged with popular Android applications and games, it is …
Sun Java by far the most vulnerable plug-in
Wondering how secure your browser is? Today at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, Qualys CTO Wolfgang Kandek presented their research which clearly shows that browser …