Facebook employees ambushed by zero-day exploit
Facebook is the latest big company to admit that they have been targeted with a “sophisticated” attack. The attack was triggered when a small number of Facebook …
LA Times website redirected users to exploit kit for over six weeks
A sub-domain of Los Angeles Times’ website has been redirecting visitors to compromised websites hosting the latest version of the Blackhole exploit kit for over six …
Adobe Reader zero-day exploit spotted in the wild
Researchers form security firm FireEye have found in the wild a PDF file that exploits a new zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Reader. “Upon successful exploitation, it …
Children turning into malicious code developers
In a world filled with laptops, tablets and smartphones, today’s children become digitally fluent far earlier than previous generations. Now, AVG has found evidence that …
Fake Amazon Kindle receipt leads to persistent malware
Amazon customers buying e-books for their Kindle or other mobile devices should be careful with emails that seemingly containing receipts for their purchases, warns Webroot, …
Most exploit kits originated in Russia, say researchers
58 percent of the vulnerabilities targeted by the most popular exploit kits in Q4 were more than two years old and 70 percent of exploit kits reviewed were released or …
Dangerous remote Linksys 0-day root vulnerability discovered
DefenseCode researchers have uncovered a remote root access vulnerability in the default installation of Linksys routers. They contacted Cisco and shared a detailed …
Oracle patches critical 0-day with new Java update
Oracle has released Java 7 Update 11, the computing platform’s newest version that patches the recently discovered and currently widely misused zero-day vulnerability, …
Disable Java! Recent 0-day exploit is included in exploit kits
The Java zero-day that has recently been spotted being exploited in the wild has turned into big, big news as a number of popular exploit kits have been fitted with the …
New Java 0-day exploited in the wild
A new Java zero-day being exploited in the wild has been found. With the files we were able to obtain we reproduced the exploit in a fully patched, new installation of Java. …
IE zero-day used in targeted watering hole attacks
News that an Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability was being and has been for quite some time been used in a new “watering hole” attack has livened the …
Most unique viruses of 2012
PandaLabs outlined its picks for the most unique viruses of the past year. Rather than a ranking of the most widespread viruses, or those that have caused most infections, …