“Uniform traffic ticket” spam leads to malware
A massive spam campaign taking the form of an email notifying the recipients of a bogus traffic ticket has been detected by a number of security companies. The email in …
RSA proactively blocks malware threats
RSA announced updates to its CyberCrime Intelligence Service designed to help enterprises monitor and harden their infrastructure against malware infection and data loss. This …
PoC keylogger app for smartphones revealed
We are all familiar with keyloggers – software that registers and identifies the keys pressed by a computer user – and its prevalently malicious uses. One of the …
SpyEye source code and crack for the toolkit leaked
Three months after Zeus’ source code has been spotted being sold for small amounts on underground online markets, Xyliton – a French security researcher and member …
IE 9 best option against Web-based malware attacks
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 has proved once again to be the best choice when it comes to catching attacks aimed at making the user download Web-based malware. This …
500% increase in email-attached malware
The UPS name is once again being used to spread vast amounts of email-attached malware. The last week has seen an extraordinary increase – over 5.5 times the average …
Android malware answers calls, eavesdrops on users
Android users are two-and-a-half times as likely to encounter malware today than just six months ago, say the recently revealed results of an extensive analysis by Lookout. …
Banking Trojan that steals from the rich
To be sure, it steals from the poor, too, but it contains a routine that automatically tries to transfer a rather large amount of money from the victim’s account to …
Fake CCleaner offered for a small fee
Anything and everything you download from the Internet could be a piece of malware, disguised as a legitimate document or software. GFI has recently spotted a Russian website …
Android malware masquerading as love test app
Online Chinese third party app stores are a treasure trove of Android malware which hides under many guises. Their goal is often the same: get permission from the user to send …
Gordon Ramsey says father in law hacked into his email
UK celebrity chef Gordon Ramsey claims that Chris Hutcheson – the father of his wife and former chief executive of his global restaurant business – has hacked into …
Malicious fake Firefox update spam run
Fake notices about a Firefox update are again targeting the browser’s users, says Sophos. A rather plain message supposedly coming from Mozilla instructs users to follow …
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