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New wave of Shylock Trojan targets bank customers

Cybercrooks wielding the Caphaw (better known as Shylock) banking Trojan are once again targeting users of financial institutions around the world, warns Zscaler. The initial …

Beware of 419 scam emails delivered via CNN’s “Email This” feature

Email spammers often try to take advantage of current news and to impersonate legitimate news sites (usually CNN) in order to bypass spam filters and convince recipients to …

Rootkit freezes computers’ hard disk to respawn itself

Researchers from Vietnamese security firm Bkav have recently spotted and analyzed a new piece of malware that uses an unexpected self-protection mechanism: it …

Chinese hackers for hire tied to Bit9 and Aurora attacks

The existence, the modus operandi and details of successful campaigns of another Chinese hacking group have been revealed by Symantec researchers, who have managed to tie to …

Microsoft issued Fix it for actively exploited IE 0-day

Microsoft has yesterday unexpectedly released a security advisory warning users about instances of active exploitation of a vulnerability found in all supported versions of …

USB “condom” protects from mobile device juice jacking

A group of Georgia Tech researchers has created quite a stir at this year’s Black Hat conference when they showcased chargers capable of installing malware on iPhones, …

Mobile Pwn2Own: $300k prize pool awaits successful contestants

The next Mobile Pwn2own competition is to be held in November at the PacSec Applied Security Conference in Tokyo, and contestants can earn as much as $100,000 for a successful …

Too long passwords can DoS some servers

The discovery of a vulnerability in popular open source web application framework Django has recently demonstrated that using a long password is not always the best thing to …

Researchers create undetectable layout-level hardware Trojans

The fact that most of computer hardware is produced outside the US and Europe has long presented a worry for the governments of those countries and for the companies and …

Largest Belgian telecom breached by the NSA?

Belgacom, primarily state owned and the largest telecom in Belgium, has announced that its internal IT systems have been breached and compromised with malware by an …

FBI confirms they were behind Freedom Hosting’s takeover

An FBI agent testifying at the court hearing where the subject of bail for Freedom Hosting owner Eric Eoin Marques was discussed has confirmed that the FBI has, indeed, had a …

NSA impersonated Google in MitM attacks

After all the recent revelations about the NSA and their surveillance and encryption-foiling activities, would it surprise you to know that the agency or its British …

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