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Article | 24/05/2013 Researchers warn of increased Zeus malware activity this year
The amount of cybercriminal activity associated with the Zeus family of financial Trojan programs has increased during the past few months, according ...
Article | 22/05/2013 New Citadel malware variant targets Payza online payment platform
A new variant of the Citadel financial malware is targeting users of the Payza online payment platform by launching local in-browser attacks to steal ...
Article | 21/05/2013 Researchers find critical vulnerabilities in popular game engines
Security researchers found serious vulnerabilities in the engines of several popular first-person shooter video games that could allow attackers to co...
Article | 15/05/2013 Researchers uncover large cyberfraud operation targeting Australian bank customers
Security researchers from Russian cybercrime investigations firm Group-IB have uncovered a cyberfraud operation that uses specialized financial malwar...
Article | 10/05/2013 Academic institutions urged to take steps to prevent DNS amplification attacks
Colleges and universities are being encouraged to scrutinize their systems to keep them from being hijacked in DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) at...
Article | 9/05/2013 Name.com forces customers to reset passwords following security breach
Domain registrar Name.com forced its customers to reset their account passwords on Wednesday following a security breach on the company's servers that...
Article | 7/05/2013 AutoIt scripting increasingly used by malware developers
AutoIt, a scripting language for automating Windows interface interactions, is increasingly being used by malware developers thanks to its flexibility...
Article | 26/04/2013 Hackers increasingly target shared Web hosting servers for use in mass phishing attacks
Cybercriminals increasingly hack into shared Web hosting servers in order to use the domains hosted on them in large phishing campaigns, according to ...
Article | 24/04/2013 Recently patched Java flaw already targeted in mass attacks, researchers say
A recently patched Java remote code execution vulnerability is already being exploited by cybercriminals in mass attacks to infect computers with scar...
Article | 11/04/2013 Twitter OAuth feature can be abused to hijack accounts, researcher says
A feature in the Twitter API (application programming interface) can be abused by attackers to launch credible social engineering attacks that would g...
Article | 5/04/2013 Bitcoin mining malware spreading on Skype, researcher says
Security researchers from Kaspersky Lab have identified a spam message campaign on Skype that spreads a piece of malware with Bitcoin mining capabilit...
Article | 4/04/2013 Yandex launches public DNS service with malicious URL filtering
Russian Web search firm Yandex launched a public DNS (Domain Name System) resolution service on Thursday that leverages the company's existing website...
Article | 26/03/2013 Most Java-enabled browsers vulnerable to widespread Java exploits, Websense says
Most browser installations use outdated versions of the Java plug-in that are vulnerable to at least one of several exploits currently used in popular...
Article | 21/03/2013 Researchers find TeamViewer-based cyberespionage operation
Security researchers have uncovered yet another ongoing cyberespionage operation targeting political and human rights activists, government agencies, ...
Article | 19/03/2013 Researcher hijacks insecure embedded devices en masse for Internet scanning project
An anonymous researcher created a massive botnet by hijacking about 420,000 Internet-accessible embedded devices with default or no login passwords an...