Dec 30, 2012 | ESET Mobile Security, General Security, Mobile Security
The amount of malware targeting Android (android trojans) is still growing fast, and Google has promised to crack down. Back in February of this year, Google announced it was hardening its stance on Android security, unveiling an app-scanner (codenamed Bouncer) to...
Dec 28, 2012 | ESET Mobile Security, Mobile Security
A new form of Android malware can sneak onto your phone, show up as an icon resembling the Android app store known as Google Play It then sends your phone number to criminals, who can then use it to send out text messages or launch a Distributed Denial of Service...
Dec 27, 2012 | ESET CyberSecurity for Macs
For decades now there’s been an argument as to why all the malware, the viruses, trojans and the like, were for Windows and not for Apple’s OS. Or the various flavours of Unix and so on. The disputing parties tend to fall into two distinct groups. One...
Dec 27, 2012 | Adware, Spyware and Trojans
The company’s researchers have uncovered three new Trojans targeting Korean gamers. According to a recent report by Marianne Mallen of the Microsoft Malware Protection Center (MMPC), Microsoft researchers recently came across three new Trojans that specifically...
Dec 27, 2012 | Adware, Spyware and Trojans, General Security
Malware in 2012 took a major acceleration – something that was predicted in 2011 – and they were right… December is “prediction season” in the cybersecurity industry. Every major anti-virus software maker and digital-security provider...
