Fake LinkedIn notifications lead to malware
Malware peddlers are targeting LinkedIn users with rather legitimate-looking messages supposedly coming from the social networking site: If the look of the message seems …
Gmail deactivation spam run leads to phishing forms on Google Docs
A week ago, F-Secure researchers have uncovered a number of spreadsheets with a form functionality that are apparently designed to act as phishing forms. Today, one of these …
Financial data stealing malware on the Amazon cloud
There were some recent comments about Amazon Cloud as a platform for successful attacks on Sony. Now Amazon Web Services (cloud) now are being used to spread financial data …
Fake AV distributed via user profiles on popular sites
An investigation into the methods of distibution of the FakeRean familiy of fake AVs has revealed some interesting facts, says GFI. In order to lure people into downloading …
FBI affiliate organization hacked, user database leaked
Only a day after they leaked the details of over one million user accounts and various databases of Sony Pictures and some of its regional sites, LulzSec announced a …
First social engineering protection appliance
Highly targeted social engineering attacks have become the new vector of choice for adaptive persistent adversaries as an undetected entry point to enterprise networks, with …
Imation acquires MXI Security
Imation has acquired the assets of MXI Security from Memory Experts International. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The acquisition includes MXI’s …
Week in review: PBS, Sony hacks, disruption of Chinese Google phishing attack
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Fake YouTube notifications doing rounds YouTube users are targeted with notifications …
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 …
Scammy emails from “Google Pharmacy”
A spam campaign trying to convince users that Google has launched a pharmacy site selling Viagra and Cialis is currently hitting inboxes around the world: Luckily for the …
Sony hit again, data from 1 million user accounts leaked
LulzSec, the hacker group behind the Fox and PBS breaches, has struck again. This time the target was SonyPictures.com. It resulted in the compromise of over one million user …
Cisco AnyConnect VPN Client vulnerabilities
Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Cisco AnyConnect VPN Client, which can be exploited by malicious people with physical access to bypass certain security restrictions …