Fake Facebook Account Suspended emails lead to Trojans, ransomware
Fake Facebook account suspension emails are doing rounds of inboxes around the world, trying to convince the recipients that their account has been temporarily disabled due to …
APT players lack deep skills of exploitation, fail at QA
Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) actors are generally considered to be among the most sophisticated cyber exploiters out there. But is this perception correct? Gabor …
Beware of emails pushing Google Chrome updates!
Google Chrome users are being actively targeted with a spam email campaign impersonating the Internet giant, urging them to download a newer version of the popular browser …
New Flash Player 0-day exploited in malvertising attacks
A new Adobe Flash Player zero-day flaw is being actively exploited in the wild via the Angler exploit kit, Trend Micro threat analyst Peter Pi has warned. The flaw …
Swiss users inundated with malware-laden spam
Swiss users are being heavily targeted by a number of spam campaigns delivering the Tiny Banker (TinBa or Busy) e-banking Trojan. Starting with Tuesday, the spammy emails seem …
Hijacking drones with malware
A recent incident at the White House showed that small aerial vehicles (drones) present a specific security problem. While in this particular case the actual danger turned out …
Evidence shows Regin spy malware is used by Five Eyes intelligence
Kaspersky Lab researchers who have recently analyzed a copy of the malicious QWERTY module have discovered that the malware is identical in functionality to a Regin malware …
Supposedly clean Office documents download malware
Bitdefender is warning Microsoft Office users against the emergence of a new spam campaign that is looking to trick antispam filters in order to allow spam to pass freely into …
Police ransomware scam drives UK teen to suicide
For most people, a ransomware infection is not a huge tragedy: they pay the bogus fine (or not), and ultimately get their computer back either because the criminals unlock it …
Click-fraud malware brings thousands of dollars to YouTube scammers
A malware delivery campaign aimed at making victims’ computers surreptitiously view YouTube videos and, consequently, artificially inflate their popularity so that …
Angler exploit kit goes after new Adobe Flash 0-day flaw
An exploit for a still officially unconfirmed zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player has been added to the popular Angler exploit kit and is, along with exploits for …
11% of Android banking and finance apps are dangerous
RiskIQ found that more than 40,000 of the 350,000 apps which reference banking in the world’s top 90 app stores contain malware or suspicious binaries. Meanwhile, of …