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 20, 2012 | General Security, Macintosh Viruses and Trojans
By John E Dunn, techworld.com The source of the Apple Mac Flashback Trojan was probably a large clutch of compromised US-based WordPress blog websites hijacked to push visitors to malware hosts, Kaspersky Lab research has revealed. As has previously been established...
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 18, 2012 | Mobile Security
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...
Apr 18, 2012 | Macintosh Viruses and Trojans
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....
