Interestingly the new year 2008 opened its doors with a surprising news in the malware field. Hardware infected? Yes, again malware guys have showed their extraordinary fantasy to spread panic and disasters over the computer world. According to recent reports by SANS Internet Storm Center there is a new trend to transmit malwares through hardware [...]
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Security software firm McAfee has warned that spyware is getting out of control and "morphing" into new threats. The McAfee "Spyware: A Morphing Campaign" report examines the evolution of adware aand spyware, and details the current threats to society.
Technorati Tags: adware, cybercrime, spyware
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There’s no such thing as New Year in the virus world. And it’s definitely not a time for seeing out the old and bringing in the new. Statistics for January show that the malware and potential malicious programs in circulation are remarkably similar to those in last month’s rankings.
Technorati Tags: Kaspersky, Malware, Virus
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More phishing efforts by criminals make use of redirection and other DNS tricks to keep investigators from tracking down their sites. The rise of fast-flux and rockphish techniques represents the latest move in the cat and mouse game of online security.
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Life’s too short to live in uncertainty, the stakes are too high. A month ago, I indicated the upcoming release of the third version of the script kiddies favorite Shark Malware. Despite that after the negative publicity of the malware that’s actually promotd as a RAT, the authors supposedly abondoned the malware, they seem to [...]
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For the past year, I’ve been writing about the use of iframes to compromise legitimate Web sites with links to malicious code servers. It’s easy for criminal hackers to compromise a site if it is poorly managed and open to cross-site scripting attacks (think ma-and-pa e-commerce sites). Over the summer, automated versions of these attacks [...]
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