Microsoft insist the Kelihos botnet is dead despite reports last week suggesting otherwise; but the company acknowledged that a new botnet is being assembled using a variant of the original malware. The reappearance of a Kelihos-like army of hijacked computers shows just how difficult it is to eradicate a botnet,…
Evolving Malware Shows How Evil Apps Will Evade Detection
Just a few days after Google announced new safeguards against malicious apps in its Android Market, one researcher is already offering a helpful reminder that the mobile malware cat-and-mouse game is just getting started. Last Friday, North Carolina State University professor Xuxian Jiang wrote on his blog that his team…
Evolving Malware Shows How Evil Apps Will Evade Detection
Just a few days after Google announced new safeguards against malicious apps in its Android Market, one researcher is already offering a helpful reminder that the mobile malware cat-and-mouse game is just getting started. Last Friday, North Carolina State University professor Xuxian Jiang wrote on his blog that his team…
Evolving Android Malware Shows How Evil Apps Will Evade Google’s Scans
Just a few days after Google announced new safeguards against malicious apps in its Android Market, one researcher is already offering a helpful reminder that the mobile malware cat-and-mouse game is just getting started. Last Friday, North Carolina State University professor Xuxian Jiang wrote on his blog that his team…
Symantec warns of mutating malware in Android Market (Appolicious)
Appolicious – The world of mobile device malware is getting a little more dangerous with the announcement from tech security company Symantec that it has discovered malware programs that mutate every time they’re downloaded. View full post on Yahoo! News: Security News View full post on National Cyber Security
Malware Automates Storing of Data Haul on File-hosting Site SendSpace
Trend Micro researchers have discovered a piece of malicious software that automatically uploads its stolen data cache to the SendSpace file-sharing service for retrieval. Malware authors have used file-hosting and sharing servers for that purpose before, but this is the first time malware has been noticed to do that automatically,…
Malware hijacks file host SendSpace to steal information
Trend Micro researchers have discovered a piece of malicious software that automatically uploads its stolen data cache to the SendSpace file-sharing service for retrieval. Malware authors have used file-hosting and sharing servers for that purpose before, but this is the first time malware has been noticed to do that automatically,…
Malware hijacks file host SendSpace to steal information
Trend Micro researchers have discovered a piece of malicious software that automatically uploads its stolen data cache to the SendSpace file-sharing service for retrieval. Malware authors have used file-hosting and sharing servers for that purpose before, but this is the first time malware has been noticed to do that automatically,…
Mutating malware is infesting the Android Market
Over the past year or so, there have been several widely-publicized reports of malicious applications making their way into the Android Market. It’s something Microsoft jumped on with that whole #Droidrage thing on Twitter, but Google recently announced that it was turning loose Bouncer in the Market to automatically rid…
Facebook hackers use fake attack on Iran to spread malware
A “worrying number” of Facebook users are sharing a link to a malware-laden fake CNN news page reporting the US has attacked Iran and Saudi Arabia, security firm Sophos claims. If users who follow the link then click to play what purports to be video coverage of the attack, they…