A cybercrime gang that primarily targets companies from the chemical industry has launched a new series of attacks that involve malware-laden emails purporting to be from Symantec, the security vendor responsible for exposing its operation earlier this year. Dubbed the Nitro attacks, the gang’s original industrial espionage efforts began sometime…
Google removes 22 more malicious Android apps from its Market
Google has removed nearly two dozen malware-infected apps from its official Android Market in the last several days, a security company said Sunday. So far this year, Google has yanked more than 100 malicious Android apps from its download distribution channel. San Francisco-based Lookout Security said that it and other…
Malicious malware link is being served up through Facebook chat
Having been around this computer thing, and the online world, for a long time I am never surprised when I hear of some new vector being exploited by malware and the people that create them. So hearing that Facebook has become the newest platform of these jerk-offs doesn’t come as…
Spammers Hijack Email Marketer Accounts to Send Malicious Messages
Spammers are finding it more lucrative to compromise email marketing firms and exploit their resources to send out malicious messages. View full post on email spoofing – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
Facebook users offered app to scan for malicious links
Facebook users worried about the risk of clicking on malicious links while using the social networking service are being offered a new app web that filters friend from foe. Available as a live beta, ShareSafe from F-Secure uses “patent-pending” technology to scan links users plan to send to friends, or…
Malicious ads make their way onto Bing and Yahoo
MALWARE DISTRIBUTORS have managed to get their rogue ads displayed on Bing and Yahoo when users search for popular software downloads. The paid links take users to web sites resembling those products’ home pages, but hosting malware instead. The malicious advertising, or malvertising, campaigns were detected by security researchers at…
Hacker cloaking malicious files with Windows extension trick
Hackers are using a new trick to cloak malicious files by disguising their Windows file extensions to make them appear safe to download, a Czech security company warned today. The exploit, dubbed “Unitrix” by Avast Software, abuses Unicode for right-to-left languages, such as Arabic or Hebrew, to mask Windows executable…
286 mn malicious attacks in 2010: Report
BANGALORE, INDIA: Only over the last one year, 286 million distinct malicious programs were unleashed by attackers, says the latest Internet Security Threat Report (ISTR) by anti-virus and anti-spyware products company Symantec.When not even one day passes without a major hacking news break, this might not come as a surprise…