<!– Sign up for our Newsletters | –> Sign up for our Newsletters | Email the Editor | Print In 2011, cybercriminals stepped up their game with the creation of malware networks (malnets)-distributed network infrastructures that exploit popular places on the Internet like search engines and social networking sites…
Global Research Shows Mobile Malware Accelerating
SUNNYVALE, CA–(Marketwire -02/15/12)- Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR – News) released findings today from its 2011 Mobile Threats Report, showing that mobile malware has reached a new stage of maturation. The report, conducted by the Juniper Networks Mobile Threat Center — the only threat center in the world devoted exclusively to…
QR Code Malware is Serious, VPN4ALL Protects Against It
Through its mobile VPN service, VPN4ALL keeps users safe from phishing attacks and dangerous malware stemming from malicious QR codes (PRWEB) February 14, 2012 VPN4ALL, a VPN service that provides its subscribers with online and mobile security, privacy and anonymity, is responding to the growing and serious nature of QR…
Malware Network Threats Rising, How to Defend Yourself
In 2011, cybercriminals stepped up their game with the creation of malware networks (malnets)-distributed network infrastructures that exploit popular places on the Internet like search engines and social networking sites to repeatedly launch a variety of malware attacks. Security firm Blue Coat Systems began tracking malnets this past year. In…
Download InfoWorld’s Malware Deep Dive report
You are previewing premium content. Become an Insider to read the full article. New malware needs new defenses, and InfoWorld’s special report tells you how to identify — and stop — these online threats Follow @infoworld If malware were biological, the world would be in the grip of the worst…
MAAWG Evolves Into M3 Tackling Messaging, Malware, Mobile
SAN FRANCISCO, CA–(Marketwire -02/14/12)- The online industry generally acknowledges that viruses and malicious code are spread through spam, yet it seems that malware and messaging security professionals rarely collaborate on threats despite the commonality of their work. The Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group is pushing the industry to move beyond this…
Six ways to prevent drive-by download malware attacks
In the first quarter of 2011, enterprise users encountered an average of 274 web-based malware attacks, a 103 percent increase over 2010, according to research from Cisco ScanSafe. Why the dramatic increase? One major cause is the growing number of drive-by download attacks. Drive-by downloads are an especially pernicious method…
Six ways to prevent drive-by download malware attacks
In the first quarter of 2011, enterprise users encountered an average of 274 web-based malware attacks, a 103 percent increase over 2010, according to research from Cisco ScanSafe. Why the dramatic increase? One major cause is the growing number of drive-by download attacks. Drive-by downloads are an especially pernicious method…
StopTheHacker startup sets up website malware detection service
StopTheHacker launched yesterday with a set of services for detecting malicious code implanted in websites by hackers who compromise sites to try to launch attacks on visitors to infected web pages. Co-founder Michalis Faloutsos, who is also a computer science professor at University of California at Riverside, said that the…
Google ‘bouncer’ gets tough with Android malware apps
Developers making rogue apps for Google‘s Android platform, look out – the Bouncer is here. Bouncer, Google’s new security service for its Android platform, scans the Android Market and even developers’ accounts for potentially harmful apps and kicks them out, just like its real-life namesake. “Today we’re revealing a service…