Virus shuts down gas company’s site and offices
The official website and the email servers of Ras Laffan Liquefied Natural Gas Company – the world’s second largest liquefied natural gas company which distributes …
Fake UPS notices deliver malware
Cyber crooks have once again resurrected the old UPS spam email campaign in order to deliver their malicious wares to Internet users, warns Webroot’s Dancho Danchev. As …
AV-killing worm spreads via Facebook chat and IM clients
A rather industrious piece of malware that – among other things – paves the way for other malware by disabling AV solutions and software update modules has been …
Kaspersky Lab publishes research about Wiper
In April 2012 a series of incidents were publicly reported about a destructive malware program, codenamed Wiper, which was attacking computer systems related to a number of …
Cross-platform Wirenet Trojan targets Mac and Linux users
Since Windows users constitute the majority of computer users around the world, most malware is designed to target that particular OS and software made for it. Still, every …
Cybercriminals use throw-away domains to infiltrate enterprise networks
The first six months of 2012 saw continued increases of malicious infection activity and an intensified danger of email-based attacks as cybercriminals increasingly employed …
Java 0-day exploit served from over 100 sites
The problem of the two unpatched Java zero-day vulnerabilities that are actively exploited in the wild by attackers looking to gain access to their targets’ computers is …
Fake PayPal payment notifications carry malware
Millions of fake emails purportedly sent by PayPal have been hitting inboxes in the last few days, Webroot warns. The emails take the form of a notification about a received …
Beware of fake Symantec AV notifications
Malware peddlers occasionally take advantage of the good reputation of big security companies to spread their malicious wares, and in a recently spotted malicious email …
Hackers allegedly breached Saudi Aramco again
Saudi Aramco, the national oil company of Saudi Arabia and the biggest oil company in the world, has issued a statement announcing that it has restored all its main internal …
Fake Facebook photo notifications carry malware
Fake Facebook notifications informing users that a friend has posted a new photo of them on the social network have been spotted hitting inboxes around the world. The emails …
Trend Micro Deep Security 9 released
Trend Micro announced Deep Security 9, a server security platform designed to provide server, application and data security across physical, virtual and cloud environments …