WordPress users endangered by Trojanized plugins
Three popular WordPress plugins have been Trojanized by unknown individuals and made available for download, warned WordPress yesterday. “Earlier today the WordPress …
Trojan targets devices with custom Android versions
A Trojan targeting rooted smartphones and those with custom built versions of Android has been spotted on third-party Android markets in China. Lookout researchers have dubbed …
Trojan goes after Bitcoins
Bitcoin – the digital currency that has lately become a point of contention between those that consider it a perfect way of handling payments online and those who said …
SpyEye Trojan attacks Air Berlin and AirPlus travelers
Trusteer have uncovered a SpyEye configuration that targets users of two leading European airline travel Web sites: Air Berlin, the second largest airline in Germany (after …
Continued attacks on social networks
GFI Software announced the top 10 most prevalent malware threats for the month of May 2011. The month was marked by a number of Facebook survey scams baiting users with offers …
Plankton Android Trojan found in 10 apps on Android Market
Ten more applications have been pulled from the Google’s official Android Market following a notification that they contained a new kind of Android malware. The malware …
Stolen passwords used as bait in malware spam run
At the rate at which databases of various online services are currently being compromised, I expect that emails such as this latest one spotted by Symantec will become a …
Apple security update bypassed after 8 hours
It took only eight hours for the malware developers behind the MacDefender and its variants to come up with a way to bypass the security update pushed out by Apple. According …
26 trojanized apps pulled from Android Market
26 applications containing a variation of the DroidDream Trojan have been found on the official Android Market and are believed to have been downloaded by at least 30,000 …
iPhone 5 spam run leads to malware
The date of the release of iPhone 5 is still unknown, but that doesn’t stop malware peddlers from using it to lure in Apple fanatics. After all, didn’t a recent …
SpyEye Trojan attacks Verizon’s online payment page
Trusteer discovered a configuration of the SpyEye Trojan targeting Verizon’s online payment page and attempting to steal payment card information. The attack took place …
New Alureon variant improves on old evasion techniques
The Alureon Trojan (also known as TDL, TDSS and Tidserv) has been around since 2007, and it’s function consist mainly in allowing the attacker to intercept incoming and …
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