Spammers bait users with “stolen nude photos”, deliver malware
If you get an email saying that nude pictures of you and/or of your girlfriend have been leaked on the Internet, don’t open the attachment. The same goes for attachments …
Bogus BancorpSouth emails lead to exploit kit
Fake security related notices ostensibly coming from BancorpSouth, a bank holding company operating mainly in the South of the United States, have been hitting users’ …
Trojan infection triggers massive printing jobs
If your printers start printing garbage characters until they run out of paper, it’s a sure sign your network has been hit by the Milicenso Trojan. According to Symantec …
Malware-as-a-service allows victim management
A big amount of the malware out there are RAT (Remote administration tool) samples. This is software created by people specialized on it, people that develop, improve and sell …
Rising malware threat for banking credentials
AhnLab cautioned against increasing variations of SpyEye trojan and ZeuS bot that attempt to steal personal banking information all over the world. Lately, the AhnLab Security …
Zitmo Trojan masquerades as security app
Zeus-in-the-mobile (“Zitmo”) for Android users is back, pretending to be a security solution for the mobile operating platform. It masquerades as “Android …
Facebook warns its users infected with DNSChanger
As the date of the shutdown of the interim systems that allow computers infected by the DNSChanger Trojan to connect to the Internet draws near, Facebook has joined Google in …
Spying version of Iranian anti-censorship software found
A compromised variant of Simurgh – a stand-alone proxy software for Microsoft Windows that has been heavily used by Iranians to get around censorship since 2009, and is …
Tiny but deadly banking Trojan discovered
The discovery of a new banking Trojan by the researchers working for CSIS Security Group has proved that a piece of malware doesn’t have to be big and complex to get the …
FBI warns of joint threat by ransomware and banking Trojan
The combination of the Citadel banking Trojan and Reveton ransomware that Trusteer warned about at the beginning of May is apparently still targeting users. So much so, that …
DNS-changing Trojan leads to phishing banking sites
Latin American Internet users are constantly attacked by cyber crooks who aim to get their online banking credentials in order to perpetrate identity theft and banking fraud. …
New Android Trojan likely developed by arrested cyber crooks
The alleged authors of Foncy, a premium rate SMS Trojan that targeted users from a number of European Countries and Canada, have been arrested and indicted in February in …
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