Android is pretty great, but we all have to admit – the operating system is pretty vulnerable to malware. One of the latest and particularly nasty attempts at infecting users was through a seemingly legitimate copy of Angry Birds Space. This latest attack is even more legitimate. The security experts…
Google’s Chrome Web store used to spread malware
Crooks have found a new venue to push malware: the official Google Chrome Web Store. It was recently used to hawk Chrome browser extensions secretly hijacking users’ Facebook profiles. According to Kaspersky Lab expert Fabio Assolini, one malicious extension hosted on Google’s own servers contained hidden code that “can gain complete…
Google’s Chrome Web store used to spread malware
Crooks have found a new venue to push malware: the official Google Chrome Web Store. It was recently used to hawk Chrome browser extensions secretly hijacking users’ Facebook profiles. According to Kaspersky Lab expert Fabio Assolini, one malicious extension hosted on Google’s own servers contained hidden code that “can gain complete…
BLOG: Spread love, not malware, this Valentine’s Day
Trend Micro recently discovered the Valentine’s day Facebook malware. This new scam on Facebook promotes and encourages its users, via a wall post, to install a Valentine’s theme into their Facebook profile. Once installed, the users are then re-directed to another page that urges them to install the theme. The…
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…
Man claims he intentionally spread HIV
<!– –> Tweet – A A A + <!– –> GRAND RAPIDS (WZZM) — Grand Rapids Police and the Kent County Health Department are investigating claims by an HIV-positive man that he intentionally tried to spread the virus to as many people as he could. The man reportedly told…
Koobface Gang That Spread Worm on Facebook Operates in the Open
The Koobface gang, a Russian-based group, has grown wealthy by apparently spreading a computer worm on Facebook and other social networks and cashing in on various schemes. View full post on computer worm – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security » Virus/Malware/Worms
Koobface Gang Uses Facebook to Spread Powerful Worm
The men live comfortable lives in St. Petersburg — and have frolicked on luxury vacations in places like Monte Carlo, Bali and, earlier this month, Turkey, according to photographs posted on social network sites — even though their identities have been known for years to Facebook, computer security investigators and…
How a Random Hacker Leaked Lindsey Lohan’s Playboy Spread
Nobody was surprising about the nude photos of Lindsey Lohan posing for Playboy that showed up online ob Friday, but the insane determination that led an anonymous file-sharer to comb the web to find, download and post the files certainly is. The much blogged about cover story that reportedly earned Lohan a million bucks…
Security firm: Facebook chat worm continues to spread
A worm continues to spread on popular social networking site Facebook, tricking users into believing they were clicking on a link to an image. View full post on computer worm – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security » Virus/Malware/Worms
