Zeljka Zorz
WoW phishing email threatens with account termination
World of Warcraft players are often targeted by phishers whose goal is to get the login credentials to as many accounts possible and bleed them dry. A recently detected one …
Cyber attacks on US federal networks on the rise
The number of cyber attacks against federal government systems and networks has increased nearly 40 percent, says in the annual report on federal cybersecurity efforts …
Randomization of code and binaries for evading AV solutions
An interesting detection evasion technique by a site that serves fake AV has recently been spotted by a Zscaler researcher. The site’s source code has been randomized so …
TripAdvisor member database breached, part of it stolen
Just days after Play.com notified its customers of a breach that resulted in their email addresses being compromised and some of its users being targeted with malicious …
Serious cyber attack targets EU institutions on eve of summit
Today is the first day of the first EU summit that takes place under the Hungarian presidency, and European leaders have gathered in Brussels to discuss matters such as the …
Twitter tests XSS attack prevention on its mobile website
Twitter has been testing and has now implemented Content Security Policy – a new standard developed by Mozilla to block cross site scripting (XSS) attacks – on its …
Japan leakage analysis emails with malicious XLS attachments
Japan’s seemingly unending series of misfortunes has so far generated a vast variety of online scams. The latest one includes spam emails containing Excel attachments …
Rogue SSL certificates issued for Google, Yahoo, Skype
A Comodo affiliate Registration Authority (RA) has been compromised and the incident resulted in the issue of nine rogue SSL certificates for seven popular domains, reported …
Play.com customers receiving malicious emails, Silverpop blamed
The notification and the warning that Play.com sent out to its customers following a breach of systems belonging to the company that handles part of its marketing …
RSA clients to be briefed about the breach
When RSA’s executive chairman Art Coviello issued an open letter acknowledging the fact that the company’s systems had been breached and that the extracted …
Student pleads guilty to installing spyware on school computers
Omar Khan, a 21-year old former student of Tesoro High School in Orange County, California, has plead guilty to charges of having installed spyware on his high school’s …
Malicious app found in Android Market
To infect a mobile device, the Rootcager/DroidDream Trojan used two known exploits: exploid and rageagainstthecage. If the first one failed to root the device, the malware …