Trojan targets Craigslist users with spam
Malicious app used to hawk mobile spyware on the popular free classifieds site
John P. Mello | 27 Aug | Read more
Malicious app used to hawk mobile spyware on the popular free classifieds site
John P. Mello | 27 Aug | Read more
Small and medium business owners’ prurient interests are being exploited by a surprisingly large population of spear phishers as a growing flurry of attacks compromises SMBs at an alarming rate, the regional CTO of security giant McAfee has warned.
David Braue | 30 May | Read more
Brazilian hackers on the hunt for banking credentials are now targeting Bitcoin owners with a trick that sends victims to a phishing page when they enter the correct URL for Mt Gox, the online exchange that claims to account for 80 per cent of all Bitcoin trade.
Win32/Nemim.gen!A highlights sophisticated techniques used to protect malware as a kind of intellectual property
Antone Gonsalves | 17 Apr | Read more
The security issues affecting businesses are similar around the world. Most involve employees innocently bringing an infected personal mobile device into the corporate network, or clicking on a social media link that looks harmless but hides a Trojan or worm that will secretly steal data and money and, potentially, remain undetected with severe impact on security of the infected device.
Dmitriy Ayrapetov, director of product management of Dell SonicWALL | 08 Mar | Read more
There has been a surge in spam over the past week containing a trojan that mysteriously targets Australians and connects to servers in Russia and Poland if installed, according to Symantec.
Two Ukrainian nationals who had used a banking Trojan to siphon funds from an unknown number of UK targets were on Monday sentenced to four years and eight months imprisonment.
Malware writers have repackaged an old Linux backdoor known as Tsunami to target Mac OS X systems, researchers at Slovakian antivirus firm ESET have discovered.
DigiTask, the software developer credited with building the so-called Federal Trojan used by some of nation’s law enforcement agencies, faces an anti-competition law suit from a rival software developer.
European ‘hacker club’, the Chaos Computer Club, has claimed to have reverse engineered a sample of German authorities’ lawful intercept malware, Quellen-TKÜ, and found that besides eavesdropping on Skype conversations it also captures screenshots and logs keystrokes.
Flash Player 11 should fix plenty of security holes, just like Adobe Reader X did a year ago. But Adobe's products will continue to be a target as long as people insist on running obsolete software.
Stilgherrian | 04 Oct | Read more
As AVG Ambassador Tony Anscombe explained the rational behind some of the new features in AVG Internet Security 2012, released today, I couldn't help but think of the bouncer at one of my favourite local pubs.
Stilgherrian | 01 Sep | Read more
Researchers have uncovered evidence that the infamous Zeus login-stealing Trojan has been blended with the Ramnit worm to create hybrid malware that can attack online bank accounts while spreading across networks.
John E. Dunn | 24 Aug | Read more
Symantec believes animal rights protestors against the “Dog Wars” app for Android were behind a fake version that has been laced with a Trojan.
Every major corporation harbouring valuable information has been compromised, but only some know it, according to executives at McAfee and RSA.