Hidden security threats on enterprise networks
Check Point uncovered the major security risks and threats that impact organizations worldwide. Their new report examines the leading security threats, the risky web …
NBC website serving malware – stay away!
NBC’s website has been compromised, and is redirecting users to malicious sites, reports Dancho Danchev. According to HitmanPro, the website has been injected with …
Malicious URLs eclipsing botnets as malware distribution leader
McAfee Labs revealed that sophisticated attacks originally targeting the financial services industry are now increasingly directed at other critical sectors of the economy, …
Rogue Chrome extension hijacks Facebook accounts
Chrome users, beware of an extension by the name of “Business Flash Player”. According to Bitdefender senior e-threat analyst Bogdan Botezatu, the link to download …
Apple confirms being hit in recent watering hole attack
Apple has become the latest big company to confirm they’ve been affected by the watering hole attacks that resulted in the compromise of Twitter and Facebook networks, …
Delta Airlines spam delivers Citadel Trojan
Roman H??ssy over at Zeus Tracker warns about a Delta Airlines-themed spam campaign that ultimately leads to a variant of the Citadel malware – a banking Trojan that is …
Facebook malware campaign targeting Bulgarian users
“Being” on Facebook brings its own set of dangers, and among them is inadvertently downloading malware by clicking on links posted by your own …
Fake invoices in personalized emails deliver ransomware
When a business, social network or any other online service that you use or have signed up for sends you an email, they address you by the name you provided. This is one of …
Uyghur Mac users targeted with spear-phishing emails
Uyghur activists are, once again, targeted with spear-phishing emails whose goal is to set up a backdoor on the victims’ computers. The Uyghurs are a Turkic ethnic …
Tax-themed malicious spam bombard inboxes
As the end of the U.S. tax season slowly approaches, cyber crooks are stepping up their game and are sending bogus out tax-themed emails. Webroot warns about an alert …
Mobile network infections increase by 67%
Kindsight released a new report that reveals security threats to home and mobile networks, including a small decline in home network infections and an increase in mobile …
Phishing campaigns run rampant on social networks
In January, GFI threat researchers identified a number of social network-based cybercrime attacks, including phishing messages on Twitter and Facebook, as well as malicious …