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Malware

Google to help rid PCs of trojan that will prevent web access

Dan Kaplan May 23, 2012

With a July 9 deadline looming for machines infected with the DNSChanger trojan to still be able to access the internet, Google is lending a helping hand to inform users of compromise.

Botnets: The backdoor to the enterprise network

Tomer Teller, security researcher and evangelist at Check Point Software Technologies May 21, 2012

Compromising anywhere from a few thousand to well over a million systems, botnets are used by cyber criminals to take over computers and execute illegal and damaging activities.

More Mac security updates to extinguish Flashback trojan

Marcos Colon May 15, 2012

To further stop the spread of the Flashback trojan, Apple on Monday released two security updates for Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard).

Alleged LulzSec hacker Hammond pleads innocent

Dan Kaplan May 14, 2012

Accused Stratfor hacker Jeremy Hammond plans to fight the charges filed against him for the devastating breach of the global affairs firm.

SC Congress Canada: Threat intel can mitigate attacks

Greg Masters May 10, 2012

Two of the people who head security at Scotiabank, Canada's third largest bank, cited malware and data leakage as their biggest worries, but said shared threat intelligence data can provide helpful insight.

Feds warn of booby-trapped hotel Wi-Fi connections

Dan Kaplan May 09, 2012

The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) on Tuesday issued a warning to travelers to be on the lookout for malware on their hotel's wireless connection.

Microsoft hands out more Duqu fixes despite prior patch

Dan Kaplan May 08, 2012

Just when you thought all of the windows that control system recon trojan Duqu used to propagate had been roped off, the software giant releases a new set of fixes.

Major software flaws in iPhones, iPads fixed in update

Dan Kaplan May 07, 2012

A difficult-to-find vulnerability, disclosed in March at Google's inaugural hacker competition, was among the iOS fixes.

Natural gas pipeline companies under siege, DHS arm warns

Dan Kaplan May 07, 2012

A sustained attack against the nation's natural gas pipelines, apparently orchestrated by the same malicious party, is proving difficult to quell.

Flash flaw being used to deliver email based attacks

Dan Kaplan May 04, 2012

Adobe on Friday issued an emergency patch for a critical bug in its Flash Player software that is being used in targeted malware attacks.

Android malware spreads via website-injection campaigns

Marcos Colon May 03, 2012

Mobile virus authors have adopted another tactic from their PC-sabotaging counterparts: infecting websites to spread their wares.

News briefs: The latest news from Apple, Verizon and more

May 01, 2012

News briefs: The latest news from Apple, Verizon, CrowdStrike, FTC and more

Threat of the month: Chrome exploit

Carsten Eiram, chief security specialist, Secunia May 01, 2012

Threat of the month: Chrome exploit

Spam is down, but malware is as hot as ever, Symantec finds

Dan Kaplan April 30, 2012

Security firm Symantec's latest "Internet Security Threat Report" found that malicious attacks and malware variants are more prevalent than ever, and are being delivered to their victims in mass and targeted ways.

Researcher confused over handling of Oracle database bug

Dan Kaplan April 26, 2012

A security researcher who reported a vulnerability in the popular Oracle database product said Thursday that his discovery was never patched and remains wide open to attack.

Thanks to weak passwords, Conficker worm still rampant

Marcos Colon April 25, 2012

Detection numbers continue to rise for the infamous Conficker worm within enterprises, even though there is a patch available and no new variants have appeared in two years.

Russian cyber crime market more organized, lucrative

Dan Kaplan April 24, 2012

Traditional mafia groups are entering the cyber crime scene in Russia, which is leading to more centralization and professionalization -- and bigger profits.

On CISPA: Threat info sharing shouldn't be a spy project

Dan Kaplan April 24, 2012

Private and public sectors must take seriously the need to share threat data to prevent cyber attacks, but a heavy-handed approach like CISPA places us at far greater risk as a country.

Drastic drop of Flashback-ridden Macs appears premature

Marcos Colon April 23, 2012

At least two security firms that estimated a significant drop in Mac systems infected with the data-stealing Flashback trojan admit they made erroneous calls.

WordPress sites served as launching pad for Flashback

Marcos Colon April 19, 2012

Researchers have discovered a correlation between infected WordPress sites and the propagation of the prolific Mac Flashback trojan.

Trojan designed to take screenshots of hotel payment apps

Dan Kaplan April 19, 2012

A new development in the criminal underground is to peddle trojans that steal credit card data from hotels.

Experts discover Mac OS X malware, "Sabpub," used as APT

Marcos Colon April 16, 2012

A new trojan is targeting the same Java vulnerability that the Flashback malware took advantage of last week.

Connecticut community college hit with "zero-day" malware

Roo Howar April 13, 2012

Eighty-seven thousand people affiliated with Housatonic Community College may be open to identity theft after the institution became the second Connecticut school to experience a malware outbreak this year.

Third Apple Java update rids infections and turns off Java

Dan Kaplan April 13, 2012

Apple has released a third update related to Flashback, but this time, the patch comes with a detection and removal capability for the prolific trojan, and disables Java by default.

New Zeus variant targets billing services providers

Marcos Colon April 11, 2012

The purveyors of the pernicious Zeus trojan, which traditionally have targeted corporate bank accounts, have found a new cash cow: payroll accounts.

Apple says it is working to shut down Flashback infections

Dan Kaplan April 11, 2012

The company said it is creating software that will detect and remove Flashback, as well as coordinating with global ISPs to dismantle the botnet's infrastructure.

Flashback botnet activity cools over the weekend

Marcos Colon April 10, 2012

Security researchers said the number of Flashback-infected Mac computers significantly fell over the weekend, but that doesn't mean the botnet has been crippled.

Apple releases another update to quell Flashback spread

Marcos Colon April 06, 2012

Security experts are backing up one anti-virus vendor's estimate of the massive size of a Mac trojan botnet.

Apple is the richest company in the world, but it's not very good at dealing with malware

Dan Kaplan April 06, 2012

It's time for Apple to step up its game when it comes to dealing with security threats.

U.S. accounts for over half of Flashback-infected Macs

Marcos Colon April 05, 2012

Although Apple released a Java update this week to prevent the spread of a dangerous trojan, experts say the botnet continues to grow, and the U.S. accounts for over half of the compromised Macs.