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Computer Trojan Horse Steals Credit Card Details From Hotel Reception Software
By Lucian Constantin, IDG News A remote access computer Trojan (RAT) designed to steal credit card details from hotel point-of-sale (PoS) applications is being sold on the underground forums, researchers from security firm Trusteer said in a blog post on Wednesday....
20,000 Websites Possibly Infected by Malware, Says Google
By Kevin Parrish Google has informed 20,000 web sites that they could be infected with redirect malware. On Tuesday, Google's Matt Cutts said via Twitter that his Google Search Quality team sent out warning letters in numerous languages to 20,000 websites reporting...
Phishing Using HTML and Intranet Security Settings
by Righard Zwienenberg Senior Research Fellow Phishers always try to find new ways to bypass security features and trick 'educated' users. Over the years we have seen simplistic phishing attempts where the required information had to be typed into the e-mail body....
How to recognize a PC support scam
By David Harley A while ago, I responded to a blog comment promising some thoughts on how to recognize a cold-calling PC support scam. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to do that immediately, and then I was on vacation with no Internet connectivity (I should do that more...
Warning: Fake Instagram app on Android is malware
By Emil Protalinski There's a new Trojan on the block that is looking to take advantage of all the hype surrounding Facebook's acquisition of Instagram. Cybercriminals have created fake versions of the Instagram Android app, designed to earn money from unsuspecting...
Flashback Malware Still Affects 140,000 Macs
By Jared Newman, PCWorld Apparently not all Mac users got the memo about Flashback, the malware that recently infected more than 600,000 computers running OS X. According to security firm Symantec, roughly 140,000 Mac computers were still infected as of April 16. "The...
AV Comparatives Participants 2012
AV-Comparatives.org are happy to announce the participants of their annual public test-series of 2012: International participants: AhnLab (NEW), Avast, AVG, AVIRA, Bitdefender, Bullguard (NEW), eScan, ESET, Fortinet (NEW), F-Secure, G DATA, GFI (NEW), Kaspersky,...
Latest Mac Malware Attack Is a Wake-Up Call for OS X Users
By Christina Bonnington Mac users were once relatively insulated from malware attacks, if only because their OS platform didn't attract the attention of criminals. But now a spike in security threats is making it clear that the bad guys are no longer ignoring Apple's...
Fighting the OSX/Flashback Hydra
by Pierre-Marc Bureau Senior Malware Researcher The biggest Mac botnet ever encountered, the OSX/Flashback botnet, is being hit hard. On April 12th, Apple released a third Java update since the Flashback malicious code outbreak. This update includes a new tool called...
Pinterest security update
by Cameron Camp Security Researcher We recently highlighted a security walkthrough on Pinterest.com, the pinboard style sharing website that's taking the social media by storm. Since then, they've continued to grow, and continued to have accompanying growing pains...
Malware Masquerading as Angry Birds Game
Security software vendor Sophos and game maker Rovio warn about a Trojan horse pretending to be the popular Angry Birds Space game. Malware authors are using the popularity of the Angry Birds series of games as a way to infect the smartphones of users who download the...
LuckyCat Malware Threat Targets Macs through Word
By Jeff Gamet Mac users are facing a new malware threat called LuckyCat, fresh on the tail of Flashback. This new trojan targets a security flaw in Microsoft Word to spread its malware payload via Java exploits. Costin Raiu from Kaspersky Lab said in a SecureList blog...
Lessons for IT, Apple in Flashback brouhaha
By Ryan Faas While the number of Macs infected by the Flashback malware is seemingly in decline now, the security reverberations for Apple continue. The discovery of the botnet a couple of weeks ago -- and Apple's response -- has prompted criticism by IT security...
Malware Masquerading as Angry Birds Game
Security software vendor Sophos and game maker Rovio warn about a Trojan horse pretending to be the popular Angry Birds Space game. Malware authors are using the popularity of the Angry Birds series of games as a way to infect the smartphones of users who download the...
Apple releases Flashback malware removal tool, for OS X Lion only
By Ed Bott In its ongoing battle to clean up the Flashback malware mess, Apple has now released a standalone removal tool. The downloadable utility is available exclusively for Mac owners running OS X Lion. It will not run on Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) or earlier...
Apple releases second Java update to deal with Flashback malware
Apple has released a second update for Java to patch the vulnerability that allows the Flashback malware access to MacOS machines. This Java release is specifically targeted to MacOS-X Lion and shows as Java for OS X Lion 2012-002. Some of the Macintosh community have...
Flashback Central: How to Find, Protect Against, and Eliminate Scary Apple Malware
By David Murphy It's been quite a week for Mac owners. And that's all thanks to Flashback, a drive-by-download attack that requires absolutely no input by users in order to install itself on one's Apple system. Visit a malicious website and that's it: The code...
A blast from the past – and something that no longer holds true…
Apple's claims to be virus free are a thing of the past... The no-so-new FlashBack trojan with a botnet of 600,000+ macs doing it's bidding has well and truly ended the Apple claim that viruses are a "PC thing". More details on FlashBack If you run ANY macintosh...
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