After TorrentLocker, new Carberp banking malware takes stab at Australia
Carberp, a banking trojan that recently hit over 150,000 Australian PCs, is taking a second bite at Australia through spam email loaded with malware.
Carberp, a banking trojan that recently hit over 150,000 Australian PCs, is taking a second bite at Australia through spam email loaded with malware.
Malware authors continued to outpace security vendors in the second half of 2014, releasing so many and so varied malware strains that in some months security tools from major vendors did not detect any of the malware they were presented with, according to the results of eThreatz automated malware testing.
David Braue | 15 Jan | Read more
A survey of 112 CIOs by US investment firm PiperJaffray has found that security will be the top spending priority in 2015.
Organizations may tolerate, accept or embrace BYOD--letting employees use their own mobile devices for business purposes--but they all struggle with the blurred line of protecting company data without infringing on individual privacy. Box recently announced two initiatives--Box Trust, and Box for EMM--that promise to give Box's customers and their employees some peace of mind when using BYOD. Box currently serves more than 27 million users across 240,000 businesses--including 99 percent of the Fortune 500.
Tony Bradley | 19 Dec | Read more
A malware program with data wiping functionality that was recently used to attack Sony Pictures Entertainment bears technical similarities to destructive malware that affected organizations in South Korea and the Middle East in the past.
Lucian Constantin | 06 Dec | Read more
With all the focus on the security threat posed by malicious hackers, it's easy to forget about the other vulnerabilities that threaten the integrity of corporate data – particularly amongst companies that are caught up in the rollout of mobile technologies to enable their employees to work effectively from wherever they are.
David Braue | 05 Dec | Read more
Australians may not celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday like their American counterparts, but they have proved just as ready to drain their wallets – and, according to many security vendors' warnings, expose themselves to security risks through online and mobile shopping.
David Braue | 04 Dec | Read more
Australia is apparently setting the gold standard when it comes to aggregating personal information on its citizens, with the UK said to be using the controversial Australian data-retention regime as a model for its own legislation. There's no telling how that will be received by the US National Security Agency, which was arguing that its own online surveillance programs are legal and carefully scrutinised by other parts of the government.
David Braue | 02 Dec | Read more
Regin, the latest malware threat, is also one of the more mysterious ones. When Symantec unveiled details of the new cyber espionage campaign last weekend, its researchers described it as a highly sophisticated threat with an unprecedented level of technical competence.
Tony Bradley | 26 Nov | Read more
Symantec and Kaspersky Lab have discovered another cyber-surveillance tool of the sort countries use to spy on each other. Called ‘Regin' by Symantec, it's attracting a lot of attention because it is reminiscent of complex tools such as Duqu and Struxnet.
John E Dunn | 26 Nov | Read more
After Symantec blew the lid on Regin on Sunday, computer security experts and companies are revealing information that has lead to suspicions that the U.S. and U.K. are involved.
Jeremy Kirk | 25 Nov | Read more
Regin, a complex and stealthy piece of espionage malware, steals passwords, logs keystrokes and can read, write, move and copy files, among other malicious activity, and has stunned the Symantec researchers that detailed it in a report.
Tim Greene | 25 Nov | Read more
Malware that Symantec says was probably developed by a nation state may have been used for as long as eight years, a length of time that underscores the challenges the security industry faces in detecting advanced spying tools.
Jeremy Kirk | 24 Nov | Read more
Symantec has revealed details about a family of malware it says is a “top tier” espionage tool with sophisticated features on a level comparable with Flame and Stuxnet.
For the first time since Stuxnet was discovered in 2010, researchers have publicly named the worm's original victims: five Iranian companies involved in industrial automation.
Lucian Constantin | 13 Nov | Read more