INTERNET AND MOBILE SECURITY FIRM AVG Technologies has revealed an increase in Android malware, including an eavesdropping trojan, along with a jump in the theft of digital currencies. The AVG Community Powered Threat Report for the third quarter relates that Android’s close to 50 per cent market share has caught…
German Government Malware Found?
Category: General News Posted: October 10, 2011 11:22AM Author: Guest_Jim_* More The German hacker group, Chaos Computer Club (CCC), has found what they believe is a government-made piece of malware. German police are able to legally install wiretapping software to monitor services like Skype and other VOIP programs, but the…
Polymorphic malware rate peaks at 72 per cent in September: Symantec
Polymorphic malware levels in September 2011 were 53.5 per cent from August and cyber criminals are leveraging new tactics in attacks, according to Symantec. At the end of July, the level was 23.7 per cent, in August it fell 5,2 per cent to 18.5 per cent before soaring to 72…
Malware mutants attack! 8 new threats coming soon
White Paper Sophos Security Threat Report 2011 Last year’s cyberattacks, like Aurora and Stuxnet, demonstrates that malware lurks everywhere and tricks even the most scrupulous user. Our threat experts see 30,000 new malicious URLs each day—70% of which are legitimate websites that were hacked. Let our new 2011 Security Threat…
U.S. Drone Fleet Infected with Malware
The virus has resisted efforts to remove it from computers at Creech Air Force Base. View full post on eSecurityPlanet RSS Feed View full post on National Cyber Security
U.S. Strategic Drone Fleet Infected by Stealthy Keylogger Malware
Computers used to control the Drone unmanned aircraft used by the military to carry out military operations have been reportedly infected with malware, according to a report. A keylogger has infected several computers the pilots using to operate the Predator and Raptor drones in the fleet in missions , Noah…
New Android malware uses blog platform to communicate with cybercriminals
Trend Micro Inc. has uncovered a new Android malware variant that uses a blog site with encrypted content as its command-and-control server and disguises itself as an e-book reader app. <img alt="New Android malware uses blog platform to communicate with cybercriminals, Blog, malware, Android, Blog, uses, Cybercriminals, Platform, communicate"height="0" width="0"…
Android malware uses blog posts as command post
Now, even seemingly innocent blog sites are being used for malware attacks targeting devices running Google’s Android operating system, a computer security firm warned. Trend Micro said one such new malware it recently detected uses a blog site with encrypted content as a command-and-control post. “From our analysis, we found…
Sembuhkan Safe Mode Yang Diserang Malware
Safe Mode merupakan teknik pertama yang sering ditempuh pengguna komputer untuk membasmi malmare karena pada mode tersebut malware sulit untuk aktif sehingga proses atau service yang memicu dapat dikenali, dihentikan, bahkan dihapus berkas eksekutornya. Namun pembuat malware tidak kalah cerdik. Safe Mode seringkali dilumpuhkan pada serangan malware. Jika hal tersebut…
Webroot antivirus ditches malware signatures for cloud scans
Webroot has launched a brand new antivirus system called SecureAnywhere that almost completely ditches malware signatures in favour of scanning a PC’s files against a cloud database. SecureAnywhere represents a radical if unproven technological overhaul and has been on the cards since the company bought small UK security company Prevx…