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Flashback botnet shrinks, downloads of Mac AV software rise

News that nearly two percent of all Mac users have had their computers infected by the Flashback malware which roped them into a 600K strong botnet has hit the Mac community …

Trojanized Angry Birds offered for download

The extreme popularity of Rovio’s Angry Birds mobile game has made it and its special editions perfect for luring unsuspecting users into downloading malware. A …

0-day in Backtrack Linux found, patched

A zero-day vulnerability affecting the last version of Backtrack Linux has been spotted by a student during an Ethical Hacking class organized by the InfoSec Institute. The …

HSBC customers under phishing attack

Customers of HSBC, one of the largest banking and financial services organizations in the world, are currently being targeted with a fake warning of account suspension: The …

Malware-laden cards delivered with HP switches

HP issued a security a security bulletin notifying buyers of its ProCurve 5400 zl switches that the compact flash cards contained in it might be infected with a virus. …

Zero-permission Android app exports sensitive data

When installing new apps on an Android device, users are asked to give their permission for specific actions that an app must be able to perform in order to function properly. …

Microsoft warns of targeted attacks exploiting Windows flaw

With the April Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has issued six bulletins – four critical, two important – and has delivered patches for 11 vulnerabilities. One particular …

Legitimate Chinese app stores riddled with security holes

If you are an Android user, you are surely aware of the fact that Chinese third-party app stores are where most malware for that particular OS has its debut. Lacking any kind …

Fake account verification email phishes for Google credentials

Once again, Google users are being targeted with emails purportedly coming from the Google Team, confirming a bogus recovery e-mail update: Seeing the threat of a permanent …

Email campaigns still targeting pro-Tibetan orgs

Malicious Tibetan-themed email campaigns are still going strong, targeting pro-Tibetan organizations and making them inadvertently install malware on their machines. The …

Utah data breach numbers 750K+ victims

Social Security numbers of some 280,000 Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Plans users and “less sensitive” information on 500,000 more of them has …

600K strong Flashback botnet comprises mostly Macs

There has been a lot of talk and speculation about the size of the botnet formed by computers targeted with the Flashback malware and whether all these machines were, in fact, …

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