cybercriminals
Dangerous vBulletin exploit in the wild
vBulletin is a popular proprietary CMS that was recently reported to be vulnerable to an unspecified attack vector. vBulletin is currently positioned 4th in the list of …
Blackhole exploit kit creator arrested
It has been confirmed: the author of Blackhole, the most popular exploit kit out there, has been arrested by Russian authorities. The news that the malware creator that goes …
Vulnerable and aggressive adware threatening millions
FireEye discovered a new mobile threat from a popular ad library that no other antivirus or security vendor has reported publicly before. Mobile ad libraries are third-party …
Silk Road taken down, owner arrested
Silk Road, the infamous black market drug website hidden in the so-called Deep Web, has been taken down, and its founder and owner arrested and charged for conspiracy to …
Connections between personality types and phishing
Phishing scams are some of the most effective online swindles, hooking both savvy and naive computer users. New insights from researchers at the Polytechnic Institute of New …
Researchers sinkhole half a million ZeroAccess bots
In a race against time and ZeroAccess developers and botmasters, Symantec researchers managed to sinkhole a large chunk of the infamous P2P-based botnet before its herders …
Over 50% don’t protect their Android devices
Over 50 percent of Android-based smartphone and tablet owners do not use any security software to protect their devices against cyber-threats, according to Kaspersky Lab. This …
Two youngsters arrested for different DDoS attacks
Following the massive DDoS attack against anti-spam outfit Spamhaus earlier this year, a 35-year-old Dutch citizen believed to be Sven Kamphuis, the owner and manager of Dutch …
Tor-using Mevade botnet is stealthy new version of old threat
The Mevade Trojan and botnet have gained unexpected notoriety when it turned out that the majority of the recent, sudden and massive uptick in Tor users was the result of it …
Cybercriminals exploit most news within 22 hours
Cybercriminals continue to respond with lightning speed when they see an opportunity to exploit a national or global news story to spread malware. In fact criminals are …
Phishing and malicious attachments on the increase
Spam volume has dropped in August, but with the level of phishing increasing tenfold and malicious attachments being found in 3.4 percent more emails when compared with July, …
Survey highlights ignorant IT behavior in the workplace
You receive a strange email. It looks shady. You’re probably being phished – a hacker is attempting to gain access to your enterprise. They must want to hijack …
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