SpyEye botnet activity surges
Fortinet announced its February 2011 Threat Landscape report, which details five zero-day vulnerabilities found in Cisco (FGA-2011-03), Adobe (FGA-2011-06) and Microsoft …
Workers expose businesses to malware and data loss
Organizations are at risk of malware as 76% of workers plug unknown USB flash drives into company PCs, potentially compromising corporate network security, according to …
Rootcager Trojan found on the official Android market
Free Android applications bundled up with malware have spilled over into the official Android marketplace. According to Symantec, the malware in question can root the phone, …
Man sentenced to 82 months for malware
A New Hampshire man was sentenced in federal court for his role in an international computer hacking conspiracy and his failure to file income tax returns while living in …
Malware family integration across botnets
Analysis by Symantec reveals that in February, 1 in 290.1 emails (0.345%) was malicious making February among the most prolific time periods both in terms of simultaneous …
Myvue.com and Autotrader.co.uk infected with malvertising
Taking advantage of the fact that a lot of security companies are more relaxed over the weekend, cybercriminals use the opportunity to strike. This weekend, the popular auto …
Attackers take advantage of emerging technologies
Attackers continue to focus on social engineering attacks and circumventing legacy enterprise security systems, according to Zscaler. Q4 saw shifts in the sources of …
Banking MitB Trojan effective with most browsers
Man-in-the-Browser attacks are becoming ever more popular with cybercriminals that seek to plunder bank accounts. The latest in a long string of banking Trojans that aids them …
New backdoor Mac OS X Trojan surfaces
There are many good reasons to choose a Mac machine, and among those is surely the fact that malware for OS X still pops up rarely. As Apple slowly but surely increases its …
Social media authenticity, privacy and security
Panda Security is providing guidance on ways to safely and securely integrate social media strategies into an SMB. Panda Security discovered that 78 percent use social …
Flaw in MS Malware Protection Engine puts users at risk
The latest update to the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine includes a patch for a vulnerability that could allow an elevation of privilege if the Engine performs a scan of …
Fake YouTube pushes out Trojan disguised as plugin
It could happen to anyone. A click on a link posted by a compromised Facebook account or in an e-mail sent from an e-mail account of a friend who got phished, and you’re …
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