Researchers break RSA SecurID 800 token in 13 minutes
An international team of scientists that goes by the name of “Team Prosecco” claims to have devised attacks that manage to extract the secret cryptographic key …
Bogus BancorpSouth emails lead to exploit kit
Fake security related notices ostensibly coming from BancorpSouth, a bank holding company operating mainly in the South of the United States, have been hitting users’ …
Compromised website serving “state-sponsored” 0-day exploit
The still unpatched Microsoft XML Core Services vulnerability (CVE-2012-1889) that allows attackers to gain the same user rights as the logged on user and execute malicious …
Fake Craigslist notifications lead to exploit kit
Emails purportedly sent by Craigslist have been hitting users’ inboxes and trying to get them to follow the offered link to a website hosting the Blackhole exploit kit, …
Olympic-themed spam emails carries malicious PDF
As the 2012 Olympic Games are speedily approaching, users should be aware of the fact that unsolicited Olympic-themed emails are rarely good news. The latest one of that kind …
Fake Amex ID verification email leads to malware
A bogus American Express account ID verification email is currently doing rounds, trying to trick users into following the offered links: The email might look like a phishing …
Is a German criminal behind the latest ransomware campaign?
Ransomware distribution campaigns are coming fast one after the other and its usually difficult – if not downright impossible – to discover anything about the …
Adobe patches Flash Player hole exploited in the wild
Adobe has released a security update for Flash Player for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Android that address the object confusion vulnerability (CVE-2012-0779) that is …
RedKit exploit kit spotted in the wild
A new exploit kit that Trustwave researchers have spotted being used in the wild is aiming to enter a market that is practically monopolized by the widely famous BlackHole and …
Poison Ivy RAT served by compromised Israeli website
The official website of the Israeli Institute for National Security Studies has been compromised and has been found serving a variant of the Poison Ivy remote administration …
Skype bug allows capturing of users’ IP address
Skype users that might – for whatever reason – wish to remain anonymous are currently in danger of getting their remote and local IP addresses discovered via a …
Incessant Blackhole spam runs likely made by same group
A seemingly never-ending string of spam email campaigns leading to websites hosting the infamous Blackhole exploit kit are hitting inboxes around the world in waves. The …
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