Zeljka Zorz
Facebook shows its true face
The F8 conference has ended, and Facebook has started making changes and setting the stage for the announced spread through the entire Internet. They might not put it like …
iPad users with PCs threatened by backdoor malware
A malicious spam email campaign has been targeting iPad users who own PCs, says Bitdefender. The message is the following: The message claims that updates have been released …
CAPTCHA solving farms headed for extinction?
Most employees in developed countries usually balk at the idea of doing a repetitive task for 8 hours a day for a low pay, so outsourcing simple (but monotonous) jobs has been …
Russian hacker offers 1.5m Facebook credentials for sale
What will Facebook do if the Russian hacker Kirllos’ claim that he has in his possession login credentials for 1.5 million Facebook accounts proves to be true? The …
National Health Service system infected with data-stealing worm
The not-so-new and easily detectable Qakbot worm has compromised over a thousand machines within the UK’s National Health Service computer system, say Symantec …
Fake fast food survey with cash reward leads to phishing site
Scammers often use the familiarity of a brand as a means of lessening the victims’ tendency to be cautious when perusing unsolicited emails. In this latest email scam, …
McAfee update cripples thousands of PCs
The misidentification of a legitimate Windows file as a virus and its subsequent deletion was what made Windows XP running computers all over the world enter in a continuous …
Zbot acquires file infection feature
A Zbot Trojan variant that has the ability to infect other files has been discovered recently. It searches for .exe files in predefined places and injects into them 512 bytes …
Spying the spy: How to turn Trojans against criminals
“Researchers do vulnerability research on so many various application, why not to do it on this one?” asked himself Andrzej Dereszowski, founder and director of …
So, you bought a fake AV. What happens next?
A Sunbelt researcher has had the “fortune” of having a relative fall for the scam, which gave him the opportunity to take a peak at the process following the …
Escalation of pharma spam from Gmail accounts
A recent noticeable upsurge of spam massages coming from compromised Gmail accounts has led the unfortunate victims to speculate that there is a bug in the Gmail mobile …