Cyber crooks misusing audit tool to breach VoIP servers
Every now and then, cyber criminals misuse “good” software in order to do bad things, and the latest instance of this modus operandi has been spotted by NSS Labs …
Linux source code repository compromised
The Kernel.org website – home to the Linux project and the primary repository for the Linux kernel source code – sports a warning notifying its users of a security …
Fake Facebook friend request, now with hidden iFrame
A slight variation of last week’s Facebook friend request spam email campaign has been spotted targeting the social network’s users, and this one employs a …
Illegal keygen for well-known AV solution leads to infection
An illegal key generator for the recently released latest version of the TrustPort Internet Security solution brings big trouble to unsuspecting users, warns BitDefender. …
Zeus rival boasts of eluding tracker services, fails
Kaspersky Lab expert Jorge Mieres wrote yesterday about Ice IX – the first crimeware based on the leaked Zeus source code. “Ice IX Botnet is the first new …
Bogus emails delivering scanned documents carry malware
Emails posing as scanned documents sent from a Xerox WorkCentre Pro photocopier are again being sent out by malware peddlers, warns Sophos. This is not the first time that …
Install one Trojan, get three more
Downloader Trojans are often used by cyber crooks to thoroughly infect systems in order to extract anything that might be of value to them. Trojan.Badlib is a particularly …
Fake Facebook friend request email leads to malware
Facebook users are once again being targeted with fake emails purportedly coming from the social network, alerting them to a friend request. A click on the offered …
Ramnit worm uses Zeus Trojan tactics for banking fraud
Trusteer discovered the 18 month old file infecting worm Win32.Ramnit has morphed into financial malware and is actively attacking banks to commit online fraud. Ramnit …
Trojanized Android app intercepts messages to hide costly subscriptions
Another trojanized Android app that monitors received text messages for keywords has been uncovered by Trend Micro, and this time, the feature is not used for spying but to …
“Uniform traffic ticket” spam leads to malware
A massive spam campaign taking the form of an email notifying the recipients of a bogus traffic ticket has been detected by a number of security companies. The email in …
SpyEye source code and crack for the toolkit leaked
Three months after Zeus’ source code has been spotted being sold for small amounts on underground online markets, Xyliton – a French security researcher and member …
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