Old school malware used for spying on European govts
Kaspersky Lab’s team of experts published a new research report that analyzed a series of security incidents involving the use of the recently discovered PDF exploit in …
Microsoft also victim of recent watering hole attack
Microsoft has followed in the steps of Twitter, Facebook and Apple, and has confirmed on Friday that it has recently experienced a security intrusion. “During our …
NBC website serving malware – stay away!
NBC’s website has been compromised, and is redirecting users to malicious sites, reports Dancho Danchev. According to HitmanPro, the website has been injected with …
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 …
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