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- The evolution of targeted attacks and exploit kits
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- Cybercriminals tailoring tactics for maximum appeal
- Web app security scanner Netsparker 2.1 released
- Building Resilient IP Networks
- Faronics Anti-Virus 3.0 released
- Chrome to stop using online checks to spot revoked certificates
- Satellite telephony encryption cracked
- Trustwave revokes "MitM" certificate, vows never to issue one again
- More bogus ad-serving Android apps evade Google's Bouncer
10 most recent virus news
| The evolution of targeted attacks and exploit kits (09 February 2012) There's been a significant growth in cybercrime, via sophisticated targeted attacks and social media scams, as well as a rise in malicious email attachments, despite a four-year low... |
| Cybercriminals tailoring tactics for maximum appeal (09 February 2012) GFI Software released its report on the most prevalent threat detections encountered during January. Last month saw malware attacks targeting a wide range of potential victims, including... |
| Convincing tax-themed spam leads to malware (07 February 2012) With the US tax season underway, users are constantly being targeted with tax-themed spam. The latest one to be spotted is an email purportedly coming from Inuit, a US company that... |
| Trojan rounds up and steals Word and Excel docs (06 February 2012) Beware of bogus FedEx emails asking you to review a shipment notification - the attached Fedex_Invoice.exe is actually a downloader Trojan that opens you computer to other pieces of... |
| Update on the Kelihos botnet (06 February 2012) Reports that the Kelihos botnet is back online and that its original operators are again trying to take over its reigns have been premature, says Microsoft. "Contrary to some reports,... |
| Viral Facebook spam campaign delivers malware (06 February 2012) If you spot a Facebook friend of yours worrying about and linking to news about the US attacking Iran and Saudi Arabia, curb your curiosity and don't follow the link if you don't want... |
| Server-side polymorphic Android apps (03 February 2012) Server-side polymorphism as a technique to serve unique malware versions that evade signature-based detection to Windows users is used by many malware peddlers on a regular basis, but... |
| Kelihos botnet rises up again (03 February 2012) Kelihos - the botnet whose operation was disrupted last September by Microsoft and Kaspersky Lab by shutting down its C&C servers and making its bots contact a sinkhole instead - is... |
| Google reveals it is already scanning Android apps for malware (03 February 2012) Even though most malicious Android apps are served from third-party app markets, cyber crooks occasionally manage to disseminate some via Google's official Android Market. Security... |
| Millions of infected Android apps... or not? (01 February 2012) Over the weekend, several websites picked up Symantec’s story about Trojanized apps on the official Android Market. This happens from time to time, but what got everyone’s attention... |
