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FixMeStick: USB device for removing malware

FixMeStick has launched the first ever, consumer-ready USB device for removing viruses from infected PCs. The principles of the FixMeStick are not new to security IT …

Ransomware starts targeting US users

A year or two ago, fake antivirus solutions were pushed almost daily onto users, but as time went by, they became wiser and more able to recognize them. So cybercriminals …

Java drive-by generator used in recent attack

A malware delivery campaign that doubles its infections efforts to really make sure the users get compromised has been recently spotted by F-Secure researchers. One of them …

Online banking fraud insurance scam

In their never ending effort to devise new schemes that defraud online banking accounts, criminals have come up with a scam that is both simple and extremely believable …

Cybercriminals are exploiting users of social networking sites

In April, cybercriminals were seen exploiting users of major social networking sites in order to spread malware and spam surveys, according to GFI Software. “In the same …

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 …

Ransomware increases in prevalence as cyber-criminal tactic

In the first quarter of 2012 alone, six million new malware samples were created, following the trend of increasingly prevalent malware statistics of previous years, according …

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 …

Android drive-by download malware served by hacked websites

A number of legitimate but compromised websites have been spotted serving Android malware to unsuspecting visitors, warns Lookout. The downloading of the malware, which poses …

Autorun-based threats account for 12% of global infections

Bitdefender announced that more than four years after Autorun was eliminated from operating systems, worms that take advantage of the antiquated feature account for more than …

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 …

Joint attack by banking Trojan and ransomware

The Citadel malware – a banking Trojan that is based on Zeus Trojan’s source code and whose creators have adopted a Software-as-a-Service approach when it comes to …

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