Apr 29, 2012 | Adware, Spyware and Trojans, Virus & AntiVirus News
by Jay Scherder, KY3 News SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — It’s being called the “Internet Doomsday.” Thousands of computers could go offline this summer because of a virus. According to InformationWeek, at its peak the malware was infecting machines used by...
Apr 23, 2012 | Adware, Spyware and Trojans
by Righard Zwienenberg Senior Research Fellow As written in our “Password management for non-obvious accounts” blog post on February 22, the FBI confiscated the DNS Servers used by the DNS Changer malware and replaced them with different servers so that...
Apr 19, 2012 | Adware, Spyware and Trojans, General Security
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....
Apr 19, 2012 | Adware, Spyware and Trojans, General Security
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...
Apr 16, 2012 | Adware, Spyware and Trojans
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...
Apr 15, 2012 | Adware, Spyware and Trojans
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...
