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- New Koobface campaign spoofs Adobe's Flash updater
- Earlier this week, the botnet masters behind the most efficient social engineering driven botnet, Koobface, launched a new campaign currently spreading across Facebook with a new template spoofing Adobe's Flash updater embedded within a fake Youtube page. The malware campaign is relying on compromised legitimate web sites,...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., CAPTCHA, YouTube Inc., Social Engineering, Worm, Gang, Koobface, 0x3E8/youtube/console=yes/, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-10-14
- Click fraud facilitating Bahama botnet steals ad revenue from Google
- Originally exposed as a botnet redirecting and monetizing hijacked traffic to over 200,000 parked domains primarily located in the Bahamas, researchers from ClickForensics have recently found evidence on active DNS hijacking of Google properties allowing cybercriminals to steal revenue from Google by pulling search results and displaying them on a...
- Tags: Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-10-08
- From Gimmiv to Conficker: The lucrative MS08-067 flaw
- GENEVA -- The critical MS08-067 vulnerability used by the Conficker worm to build a powerful botnet continues to be a lucrative security hole for cyber criminals. During a presentation at the Virus Bulletin 2009 conference here, a trio of Microsoft researchers dissected the malware attacks linked to...
- Tags: Flaw, Malware, Conficker, MS08-067, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2009-09-23
- The ultimate guide to scareware protection
- Throughout the last two years, scareware fake security software, quickly emerged as the single most profitable monetization strategy for cybercriminals to take advantage of. Due to the aggressive advertising practices applied by the cybercrime gangs, thousands of users fall victim to the scam on a daily...
- Tags: Search Engine Optimization, Web, Search Engine, Antivirus, Malware, Social Engineering, Security Software, Search, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Marketing Research, Marketing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-09-13
- Alleged TJX hacker spun a wide web of cybercrime
- Albert Gonzalez, 28, was the alleged ringleader of a cybercrime enterprise that swiped at least 170 million credit and debit card numbers in recent years. The U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday that Gonzalez, already awaiting trial for the TJX data breach, along with two others were...
- Tags: Web, Point-of-sale, Antivirus, Debit Card, Malware, Hacker, Debit Card Number, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Financial Services, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-08-18
- New Mac OS X DNS changer spreads through social engineering
- TrendMicro is reporting on a newly discovered 4th member of the OSX_JAHLAV malware family. The latest variant is once again relying on social engineering, this time spreading under a QuickTime Player update (QuickTimeUpdate.dmg) with a DNS changer component enabling the malware authors to redirect and monitor the...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, DNS, Malware, Social Engineering, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Viruses And Worms, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-08-11
- Apple warns of Mac attack risk via image files
- Apple warns of Mac attack risk via image filesWow, lots of critical vulnerabilities in there!!I can't believe how many of these bugs allow for arbitrary code execution! Viewing an image file shouldn't result in arbitrary code execution.Oh well, at least they were fixed within nano seconds of the vulnerability popping...
- Tags: Desktops, SECURITY, Patches, Apple Macintosh, Mac Attack, Apple Inc., vulnerability
- Discussion threads 2009-08-05
- Does Twitter's malware link filter really work?
- Today, researchers from F-Secure stumbled upon a long-anticipated feature in Twitter's fight against malicious abuse of its service - a malware URL filter preventing automatically registered or compromised legitimate accounts from tweeting known malicious links. Whenever a Twitter user is attempting to post a link to a...
- Tags: Malware, Twitter, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-08-03
- News to know: Chrome OS, Sinofsky, Kindle price drop, SEC and Steve Jobs, EMC-Data Domain
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Google Chrome OS coverage: Garett Rogers: Google to create operating system called Chrome OS Dave Greenfield: Google Officially...
- Tags: Steve Jobs, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Operating System, SEC, Domain, Google Chrome, Sam Diaz, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Windows 7, Corporate Communications, Operating Systems, Hardware, Marketing, Software
- Blog posts 2009-07-09
- 56th variant of the Koobface worm detected
- Researchers from PandaLabs are reporting on the detection of the 56th variant of the Koobface worm (Boface.BJ.worm), spreading across Facebook, Tagged, Friendster, MySpace, MyYearBook, Fubar.com, Hi5 and Bebo since May, 2008. According to the company, the growth of Koobface related infections is as high as 1,200% since...
- Tags: Infection, Malware, Social Engineering, Worm, MySpace, Koobface, Cyberthreats, Social Networking, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Web Site Development, Security, Viruses And Worms, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-05-15
- Botnet hijack: Inside the Torpig malware operation
- Security researchers at University of California, Santa Barbara have broken into the nerve center of the Torpig botnet also called Sinowal or Mebroot to find a 10-day stash of 10,000 bank accounts and credit card numbers worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. During the botnet hijack,...
- Tags: Credit Card, Malware, Torpig, Card Number, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Sales, Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2009-05-04
- Google's CAPTCHA experiment and the human factor
- Any research is prone to irrelevance if it starts with the wrong research questions, takes the wrong perspective, or in this case, attempts to fight the wrong enemy - automated bots attempting to recognize CAPTCHAs. Researchers at Google recently released a paper detailing a new CAPTCHA system...
- Tags: CAPTCHA, Google Inc., Koobface Gang Mixing Social Engineering Vectors, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-04-21
- Massive comment spam attack on Digg.com leads to malware
- According to PandaSecurity, the social news site Digg.com is among the very latest Web 2.0 services to be targeted by cybecriminals on their way to acquire legitimate traffic to their malware serving domains. The ongoing attack is far more widespread the originally stated, with +500,000 bogus comments leading to...
- Tags: Digg, Malware, Attack, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-02-11
- Mac OS X Malware found in pirated Apple iWork 09
- Mac OS X Malware found in pirated Apple iWork 09Not to sound too crass..but anyone who uses illegally obtained software deserves what they get.How can this be? OS X is super duper secure!Seems that's not the case. As I've been saying for quite some time.It is a feature...iMalware.Just download the...
- Tags: Operating systems, Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, Apple Mac OS, Mac-user, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Inc., malware, Apple iWork, Mac OS X Malware, Apple iWork 09, Apple Macintosh
- Discussion threads 2009-01-22
- Legal concerns stop researchers from disrupting the Storm Worm botnet
- What if security researchers were able to disrupt the leftovers of the Storm Worm botnet thanks to a flaw in its communication model allowing them to redirect infected hosts and eventually disinfect them, but fearing legal action have their hands tied? At the 25th Chaos Communication Congress,...
- Tags: Node, Malware, Worm, Stormfucker, Waledac, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-01-16
- Talkback Tuesday: Apple's AV non-announcement
- Talkback Tuesday: Apple's AV non-announcementI think.....You nailed it. Many just don't understand that no matter how secure the system is, if you have the ability to allow something to install, the OS will go right ahead and install it with a few warnings maybe, but we live in a "yes"...
- Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Operating systems, Talkback Tuesday, malware, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-12-16
- Four XSS flaws hit Facebook
- Project XSSed, the clearing house for cross site scripting flaws has just released details on four flaws affecting Facebook's developers page, iPhone login page and the new users registration page, potentially assisting malicious attackers into adding more legitimacy to their campaigns. With yet another critical XSS flaw hitting Facebook in...
- Tags: Social Networking, Facebook, Flaw, XSS, Malware, Social Engineering, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-12-15
- News to know: LinuxWorld; Cisco; Microsoft; Yahoo
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft sending mixed messages about Windows futures with 'Fiji'? Sam Diaz: LinuxWorld keynotes: Now is the time to invest. Larry Dignan: IBM, Ubuntu, Novell and Red Hat gang up on Vista A new data center?...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, LinuxWorld, Larry Dignan, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., Cloud Computing, Help Desk, Data Centers, Corporate Communications, It Operations, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Marketing
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- EFF: Bill treats hackers as terrorists
- EFF: Bill treats hackers as terroristsI think execution is a good remedy.I think that spammers, most hackers, virus and other malware writers should be executed. They are ECONOMIC TERRORISTS. The millions of hours spent cleaning in-boxes, the millions of dollars spent on anti-malware products, the millions of dollars and hours...
- Tags: Hacking, SECURITY, Cyberthreats, hacker, Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Discussion threads 2008-05-13
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