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Ransomware appropriates security company logo

Ransomware is still targeting users all over Europe and, as per usual, it shows warnings seemingly coming from police agencies of the country in which the victim resides …

Bitdefender unveils new generation of products

Bitdefender launched Bitdefender 2013, improving and adding a whole arsenal of features to keep users safe. Bitdefender Safepay brings online banking and shopping to a whole …

Zeus malware strain infecting 1 in 50 PCs

ThreatMetrix Labs came across a new variant of the P2P version of the Zeus Trojan. One of the main changes to this variant is the way it encrypts its configuration file …

Massive botnet shut down after botmaster’s arrest

Following an investigation that lasted 10 months, Russian police authorities have managed to arrest the 22-year-old operator of one of the largest botnets known to date. …

Spammers bait users with “stolen nude photos”, deliver malware

If you get an email saying that nude pictures of you and/or of your girlfriend have been leaked on the Internet, don’t open the attachment. The same goes for attachments …

Fake Flash update leads to malicious add-ons

Fake Flash update notifications are old news, but users still fall for the trick. In the latest example unearthed by Zscaler’s Julien Sobrier, one such notification …

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’ …

Trojan infection triggers massive printing jobs

If your printers start printing garbage characters until they run out of paper, it’s a sure sign your network has been hit by the Milicenso Trojan. According to Symantec …

Malware-as-a-service allows victim management

A big amount of the malware out there are RAT (Remote administration tool) samples. This is software created by people specialized on it, people that develop, improve and sell …

Rising malware threat for banking credentials

AhnLab cautioned against increasing variations of SpyEye trojan and ZeuS bot that attempt to steal personal banking information all over the world. Lately, the AhnLab Security …

AutoCAD worm steals blueprints, sends them to China

Duqu and Flame are not the only pieces of malware interested in grabbing AutoCAD files, says ESET researcher Righard Zwienenberg. A sudden spike on ESET’s LiveGrid Early …

Google detects 9500 malicious sites per day

Five years after it was first introduced, Google’s Safe Browsing program continues to provide an invaluable service to the 600 million Chrome, Firefox, and Safari users, …

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