Osama bin Laden Twitter witness’ site hacked
Cyber criminals will jump at any chance and use any news to spread malware, and news doesn’t get much bigger right now than the death of Osama bin Laden. It was obvious …
Fake AV for mobile platform detected
Fake antivirus software for Windows crop up daily, but it seems that mobile users will also have to start being on the lookout for such scams. CA researchers have spotted a …
Iran claims to have been targeted by second worm
If a statement from Gholam-Reza Jalali – the head of Iran’s Passive Defense Organization – is to be believed, it seems that Iran’s computers have been …
Interest in royal wedding abused by fake AV peddlers
As the day of the wedding of Prince William of England and his long-time girlfriend Kate Middleton quickly approaches, scammers have began to exploit the interest of Internet …
IT teams still struggling with spam and viruses
IT teams are still struggling to protect their businesses from spam email and viruses, according to Mimecast. Their research also finds that the majority of organizations are …
U.S. federal lab linked to Stuxnet breached
A federally funded U.S. lab that is suspected to have been involved in finding the vulnerabilities in Siemens SCADA systems used by the Stuxnet worm has shut down the Internet …
Bredolab variant delivered by fake Facebook warning
There are over 600 millions of active Facebook users in the world, so it’s no wonder that they are often targets of a great variety of scams. The latest one is delivered …
Easter greetings deliver malware
The days leading up to major religious holidays are when you should be more careful with the contents of your inbox. One malicious spam run recently spotted by McAfee consists …
Rise in ZIP file attachments in spam emails lead to Bredolab malware
On the 16th of March Rustock, the largest of the spamming botnets, was taken down. As you would expect, global spam levels started to drop, as can be seen when you look at the …
Epsilon breach leads to more than just phishing
Since the Epsilon breach, the customers of the company’s clients – such as US Bank, JPMorgan Chase, TiVo, Capital One, the Home Shopping Network, LL Bean Visa …
Malware silently hijacks Facebook account and adds apps
Several months ago, when the operators of the Sality P2P botnet pushed out malware that not only collected usernames and passwords and sends them to the C&C servers but …
U.S. authorities hijack botnet by substituting C&C servers
The U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI have been granted by the federal court the permission to substitute the C&C servers of the massive Coreflood botnet with …
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