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Servers breached at Fortune 100 company

The Connecticut-based Hartford Financial Services Group – a Fortune 100 company and one of the largest investment and insurance companies in the US – has suffered …

New Chinese bootkit opens the door to multiple infections

A new bootkit – kernel-mode rootkit variant – has been recently spotted by a Kaspersky Lab researchers, and it looks like is currently targeting only Chinese …

SpyEye-fueled man-in-the-mobile attack targets bank customers

The customers of a European bank have recently been targeted by a man-in-the-mobile attack featuring a SpyEye variant. “The bank uses SMS based mTANs to authorize …

Cheap Zeus source code will generate more Trojan variants

Barely two months after cybercriminals put the source code of Zeus up for sale at $100,000, reports are now coming in that the source code is being offered at bargain basement …

New Android Trojan punishes pirates

A new Android Trojan is up an about, and can be find on several of the most popular file sharing sites in the US and Asia. Disguised as a non-existent version of the …

Google Android security tool found repackaged with malware

In a what should actually not be a wholly unexpected turn of events, the Android Market security update – pushed to Android users whose devices where affected by one or …

Zeus toolkit with “ghost” panel for better evasion

The last version of the Zeus builder before author Monstr/Slavik gave up its source code to the author of the SpyEye toolkit is 2.0.8.9, and it’s still being offered on …

New variant of SpyEye banking malware

Norman researchers identified an emerging variant of the SpyEye Trojan that targets specific online banking applications. SpyEye is a malware toolkit that has become …

Illegal online pharmacies target mobile users

Malware authors have begun to set their sights on mobile device users, as witnessed by the latest Trojans made for Android-running devices, on official and unofficial online …

Google removes malicious Android apps with kill switch

After last week’s discovery of some 50+ malicious applications on the official Android Marketplace, Google has removed them as soon as they became aware of their …

Trojans still top malware threat

Continuing a trend observed since last summer, the same types of Trojan horse programs have persistently dominated the threat landscape through February, according to GFI …

Potentially deadly Trojan is a modified security solution

An interesting tactic for hiding a Trojan has recently been spotted by Symantec researchers. Instead of using entirely their own malicious code, the malware authors have …

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