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New backdoor Mac OS X Trojan surfaces

There are many good reasons to choose a Mac machine, and among those is surely the fact that malware for OS X still pops up rarely. As Apple slowly but surely increases its …

Social media authenticity, privacy and security

Panda Security is providing guidance on ways to safely and securely integrate social media strategies into an SMB. Panda Security discovered that 78 percent use social …

Flaw in MS Malware Protection Engine puts users at risk

The latest update to the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine includes a patch for a vulnerability that could allow an elevation of privilege if the Engine performs a scan of …

Fake YouTube pushes out Trojan disguised as plugin

It could happen to anyone. A click on a link posted by a compromised Facebook account or in an e-mail sent from an e-mail account of a friend who got phished, and you’re …

Malware-driven pervasive memory scraping

Reports are coming in of a new trend in hacking techniques. Known as “pervasive memory scraping,’ the technique relies on the fact that certain areas of Windows …

Spyware compromises 150,000+ Symbian devices

A new variant of spyware “Spy.Felxispy” on Symbian devices causing privacy leakage has recently been captured by the National Computer Virus Emergency Response …

A single click can open door to cybercrime

Blue Coat Systems unveiled their 2011 security report that examines Web behavior and the malware to which users are most frequently exposed. The report analyzes Web requests …

Antivirus engine ClamAV 0.97 released

ClamAV is an open source (GPL) antivirus engine designed for detecting Trojans, viruses, malware and other malicious threats. It provides a high performance mutli-threaded …

Scan-on-demand virus detector for industrial computers

Hagiwara Sys-Com announced the Vaccine USB, a portable virus detection tool for Windows OS-based industrial systems. In the past, industrial systems were built for specific …

Phishing scam and malware distribution scheme combined

The Facebook phishing campaign spotted yesterday turned out not to be so unimaginative after all. F-Secure researchers decided to see it through and entered login credentials …

New type of financial malware hijacks online banking sessions

A new type of financial malware has the ability to hijack customers’ online banking sessions in real time using their session ID tokens. OddJob, which is the name …

Ambitious malware variant signed with fake digital signature

New Zeus variants and spam campaigns that try to spread them far and wide are almost a daily occurrence, but once in a while some get more attention by security researchers …

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