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Gang wielding ColdFusion exploits expands botnet of hacked e-commerce sites
A German website of French automaker Citro?«n is the latest of the wide array of higher-profile webshop sites that have been compromised by a hacker gang leveraging Adobe …
“Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 found” video is a scam
Cyber scammers are misusing the public’s interest in the fate of the recently disappeared plane on Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 to lure users into filling in online …
Facebook security and privacy pitfalls
In this interview, Andrei Serbanoiu, Online Threats Researcher at Bitdefender, discusses Facebook security and privacy pitfalls, the dangers of sharing on the social network, …
Fraudulent tax returns net nearly $4 billion for cybercriminals
ThreatMetrix announced the risks consumers face during tax season and strategies to protect taxpayer identities, especially when filing online returns. Of all potentially …
Malware peddlers are trying out different exploit kits
Websense researchers have been following several recent email spam campaigns targeting users of popular services such as Skype and Evernote, and believe them to be initiated …
Facebook scam promises naked videos of friends, delivers Trojans instead
Bitdefender has discovered that more than 1,000 people have already been tricked into installing Trojan malware after clicking on a new Facebook scam that promises naked …
Cybercriminals increasingly drawn to Tor anonymity and hidden services
Initially created to help political dissidents bypass traffic restrictions and hide their online activity from authoritarian governments, the Tor anonymity network has long …
Three-year-old Uroburos rootkit likely created by Russian state-sponsored hackers
Researchers from German antivirus company G Data have discovered and analyzed a complex rootkit with spying capabilities and believe that it has been created and employed by …
Namecheap’s DNS server hit with a “new type” of DDoS
Popular domain registrar and web hosting service Namecheap has been having trouble with an unexpected DDoS attack targeting 300 or so domains on two of their their DNS …
Nearly 310,000 affected in University of Maryland breach
University of Maryland is the latest higher learning institution to have suffered a data breach of considerable scope and proportions, as nearly 310,000 records of staff and …
First-rate phishing email claims “Your Paypal transaction was declined”
Extremely well-made fake notifications claiming the recipients’ PayPal transaction was declined are doing rounds and trying to trick users sharing personal and financial …
Lessons learned from blocking 100 million cyber attacks
Using real-life data from the 100m+ malicious hack attempts FireHost blocked in the last 12 months, they produced a Superfecta report which contains a quarter-by-quarter guide …
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