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Fake Amazon Kindle receipt leads to persistent malware

Amazon customers buying e-books for their Kindle or other mobile devices should be careful with emails that seemingly containing receipts for their purchases, warns Webroot, …

Citadel Trojan used in unusual targeted attacks

The Zeus/Zbot banking malware and its variants and derivates (such as the Citadel Trojan) have, until now, been used for stealing banking credentials from random users. But …

Fake Booking.com warning leads to tons of malware

A massive spam campaign impersonating the popular online hotel reservations agency Booking.com is underway, trying to convince recipients to download a document supposedly …

Trojan stole over 16,000 Facebook credentials

ESET discovered a social engineering Trojan horse that managed to steal the login credentials of more than 16,000 Facebook users. The ‘PokerAgent’ Trojan targeted …

Trojan uses anti-spam system to keep in touch with C&C servers

Most malware is severely crippled if it can’t contact the C&C servers from which it receives its instructions and updates, so malware authors are constantly coming …

Employees targeted with fake DocuSign “confidential message”

An email purportedly sent by the DocuSign Electronic Signature Service on behalf of the administrative departments of a wide variety of organizations and businesses is hitting …

Skype becomes a malware minefield

Skype users should be careful when using the service these days. First CSIS researchers unearthed a campaign misusing Skype to replicate and spread the Shylock banking Trojan …

New RAT family makes its traffic look legitimate

RATs – Remote Access Trojans – are often used by cyber attackers to maintain a foothold in the infected computers and make them do things unbeknownst to their …

Bogus U.S. Airways registration confirmation leads to info-stealing malware

A new email spam campaign impersonating U.S. Airways is hitting inboxes, warns Webroot, and the airline’s customers would do well to be on the lookout for the following …

Most unique viruses of 2012

PandaLabs outlined its picks for the most unique viruses of the past year. Rather than a ranking of the most widespread viruses, or those that have caused most infections, …

Bogus LinkedIn invitations lead to info-stealer Trojan

Another round of LinkedIn-themed spam is hitting inboxes around the world, warns GFI. The email, sent from a bogus email address, urges the recipient to join the …

Apache malware targeting online banking

Analysis of a malicious Apache module, detected by ESET as Linux/Chapro.A, found that the world’s most widely used web server, Apache, is being used to carry out these …

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