Koobface botnet goes down, suspects scurry to erase tracks
As the names of the five individuals believed to be behind the Koobface botnet were revealed on Tuesday, their reaction was almost immediate and seems to validate the …
Trojan steals e-cash vouchers from Facebook users
Recently, Trusteer came across a new configuration of the Carberp Trojan that targets Facebook users to commit financial fraud. Unlike previous Facebook attacks designed to …
Identities of likely Koobface gang members revealed
It was a well-known fact in security circles that some researchers were involved for quite some time in an investigation aiming at revealing the identities of the individuals …
San Francisco City College systems infected for over a decade
Computers and servers of the City College of San Francisco have been discovered to be infected with a myriad of computer viruses and information-stealing malware, and some of …
Chinese using malware to attack US DoD smart card security
AlienVault found evidence of Chinese-originated attacks against the US government agencies including the US Department of Defense (DoD), which use a new strain of the Sykipot …
Ramnit not actually a Facebook worm
Last week, information surfaced about a new version of Ramnit, which had stolen some Facebook credentials. Most people understood that to mean that there was a new Facebook …
Rootkit masquerading as Pro Evolution Soccer 2012 keygen
Users who want to play the Pro Evolution Soccer 2012 game free of charge are in danger of getting duped and their computers compromised while looking for game cracks, warns …
The anatomy of the Gameover Zeus variant
The “Gameover” malware is a relatively new, “private” version of ZeuS. Support for the distributed command and control (C2) tools, integrated into the …
Phishing emails from spoofed US-CERT addresses
US-CERT has issued a public warning about a phishing email campaign using spoofed US-CERT email addresses. “The subject of the phishing email is: ‘Phishing …
Police system compromised due to parental spying
The Patras program, used by the German Federal Police for surveillance and tracking of suspects and their vehicles via GPS, has recently been suspended for a while and its …
Android Trojan masquerades as phone optimizer app
As you may already know, Android users are at a much bigger danger of getting saddled with a malicious app than users using other mobile platforms – especially those …
Spam emails link to QR codes
It was just a matter of time, and now it’s happening. The Websense ThreatSeeker Network has started spotting spam messages that lead to URLs that use embedded QR codes. …