Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A Latvian hacker pleaded guilty in New York to helping develop a virus that infected more than a million computers worldwide, tricking online banking customers into revealing passwords and other security information. Deniss Calovskis, 30, faces as long as two years…
Snowden Leaks: NSA Posed as Facebook to infect computers with malware
According to one of the recent report, NSA is believed to be spying many Facebook users since 2010. NSA used a number of automated techniques to install malwares into users systems. Snowden Leaks: NSA Posed as Facebook to infect computers with malware NSA codenamed these techniques as “TRIBUNE”, executed via a…
How the NSA Plans to Infect ‘Millions’ of Computers with…
How the NSA Plans to Infect ‘Millions’ of Computers with Malware by Ryan Gallagher and Glenn Greenwald | TheIntercept The classified files – provided previously by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden – contain new details about groundbreaking surveillance technology the agency has developed to infect potentially millions of computers worldwide with…
Twitter spammers infect users with fake antivirus programs
A large spam campaign observed on Twitter during the last couple of days directed users to malicious websites that exploited vulnerabilities in browser plug-ins to infect their computers with rogue antivirus programs, according to security researchers from antivirus firm Kaspersky Lab. While monitoring the spam campaign for several hours, Kaspersky’s…
Malware Authors Get Boost from Apple’s Sluggish Updates, Infect 600K Macs
Print 5 comment(s) – last by ShaolinSoccer.. on Apr 6 at 10:22 AM (Source: Science Photo) Apple refuses to let Oracle patch Java directly, cybercriminals celebrate 2 months of easy hunting If you have a Mac and you browse the internet, there’s a chance your “secure” Apple, Inc. (AAPL) computer…
Hackers poison Brazilian ISP DNS to infect users with banking Trojan
Security researchers from antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab warn that cybercriminals hacked into the DNS (Domain Name System) servers of several Brazilian ISPs and used them to redirect users to websites that distributed malware. These attacks have occurred in the last few days, but they are not new to the region,…
Facebook adverts infect users with malware
Antivirus vendor Trend Micro has recently detected a drive-by download attack on Facebook that used malicious advertisements to infect users with malware. “We encountered an infection chain, wherein the user is led from a page within Facebook to a couple of ad sites, and then finally to a page that…
This Heidi Klum story will not infect your computer with malware, honest
Searching for Heidi Klum online could be the kiss of death for your computer, one study shows. The world-famous model and current host of Project Runway ranked as the new riskiest celebrity to look up online, according to a report from the Internet security company McAfee. The report found that…
A Mouse Can Infect Your Network
Much of the computer security blogosphere was abuzz last week over NetraGard’s clever hack of a client’s network using a specially modified Logitech mouse USB mouse. The mouse contained firmware code that automatically launched when the socially engineered user plugged it in to his or her computer. The attack code…