The Global Cyber War from MentalWardPublishing.com presented free by McGuinnessPublishing.com
As more and more people are using Google Chrome and its functionalities to browse the net and to organize information, cybercriminals have set their minds on exploiting this environment to spread malware and steal users’ information.
The story is simple: Google Chrome users receive an unsolicited e-mail which announces that a new extension of their favorite [...] Read more »
Miscreants have begun creating malware that overwrites software update applications from Adobe and others.
Email malware that poses as security updates from trusted companies is a frequently used hacker ruse. Malware posing as update utilities, rather than individual updates, represents a new take on the ruse.
Vietnam-based anti-virus firm Bkis said the tactic is a logical follow-on [...] Read more »
Facebook has taken the unusual step of warning users about a bogus password reset scam designed to trick victims into downloading a password-stealing Trojan.
Prospective marks are falsely told in widely distributed spam emails that their password has been changed because of a supposed security incident. Targets are invited to open an email attachment for more [...] Read more »
Although the first known attacks using the Aurora malware that compromised Google weren’t discovered until late last year, some parts of the malware codebase has been in existence in China for nearly four years, raising questions about how many other attacks it might have been used in during that time frame.
Joe StewartJoe StewartResearcher Joe Stewart [...] Read more »
“It keeps going and going and going” may be the slogan coined for Energizer batteries, but the same holds true for a nasty trojan backdoor that mysteriously slipped into software used to monitor rechargeable versions of the product.
Almost two weeks after a red-faced Energizer admitted its Duo USB battery charger installed a data-stealing backdoor on [...] Read more »
Researchers at network forensics firm NetWitness Corp., have discovered evidence that the Zeus Trojan continues to evade antivirus and steal thousands of passwords on consumer and corporate network PCs.
Investigators said they discovered a 75GB cache, believed to be a hacker drop site tied to the Zeus infections. The cache contained the stolen data from more [...] Read more »
Answers to queries on “cute Valentine’s day ideas” are used as bait for malware infections.
Statistics show that these key words are very “hot” these days in net searches so it’s no wonder cybercriminals jump to the occasion of getting their own share of the love that roams around. What does this mean? A simple query [...] Read more »
Cyber Security virus, a rogue security application, may get into your computer without actually installing the program. It can be dropped by a Trojan that malware authors utilizes to spread it and infect as many computers as it can while it remains undetected by computer antivirus and security programs. Once on the system, Cyber Security virus [...] Read more »
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