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  • US agencies report vishing, extortion, danger of hacking

    FBI name used in email attacks, CIA warns of power supply hacks. US security and law enforcement agencies were more than usually active in the computer security world last week, with the FBI alerting on increases in voice phishing attempts and a spam campaign posing as mails from the agency itself, while a CIA representative…

  • Help for victims of e-crime

    Cybercrime support website launched. A website dedicated to helping victims of online crime and other incidents has been launched in the UK. The site, www.e-victims.org , aims to provide information and support for those who have been victims of online crime. Initially the site offers information about online shopping – providing details of consumer rights…

  • Malcode from Mexico and Africa predicted to boom

    Developing world expected to contribute heavily to future cybercrime. A report from F-Secure has predicted increasing levels of malware creation and operation in ‘developing’ countries, as internet use and IT competence levels continue to outpace employment opportunities. While the US, Europe and Japan dominated malware development in the 1990s, and China, Russia and Brazil have…

  • Microsoft alert on Excel vulnerability

    Targeted exploitation of zero-day flaw seen in wild. Microsoft has issued a security advisory on an unresolved vulnerability in its Excel software, which has been reported as a vector for targeted attacks in the wild. Few details have emerged on the exact nature of the flaw, but it is known to affect several versions of…

  • Stormy love letters

    Storm botnet celebrates birthday with new wave of spam. Earlier this week malware experts warned of likely increased activity of the Storm botnet around Valentine’s Day next month. However, the botherders seem to have taken this as a prompt as, even though Valentine’s Day is still a month away, the botnet has since been responsible…

  • Phishing danger increases as Storm botnet is hired out

    Smart new trojan and Storm diversification add to online banking risk. The dangers of banking online grew significantly in past weeks, as portions of the ever-expanding Storm botnet were hired out to run phishing campaigns and a sophisticated new trojan was discovered, capable of targeting 400 different online banking systems around the world. With the…

  • Rogue anti-malware targets Mac users

    Scam expands horizons to draw in new market of victims. The rogue anti-malware scam, in which fake anti-spyware and anti-virus products are inveigled into victims’ machines, reporting spurious infections and demanding licensing fees to remove them, has branched out to target users of Apple Macintosh systems. According to a report from F-Secure , the latest…

  • Spam printing proof-of-concept revealed

    Lack of security allows websites to send spammish content to network printers. Opening your inbox on a Monday morning and finding out that it’s full of spam is bad enough already, but what if you find your network printer has been printing pages full of spammish content? According to security researcher Aaron Weaver this could…

  • Hundreds of legitimate websites being hacked into

    New mass infection leaves security researchers puzzled. Web security company ScanSafe has reported a new mass infection of websites, which it claims accounts for 15% of the web traffic the company blocks. A wide range of sites, mostly operated by small firms based in the UK, were seen to be serving malicious JavaScript to visitors,…

  • SQL attack hacks wide range of sites

    CA among victims of major attack linking sites to malware. Huge numbers of legitimate websites – perhaps as many as 100,000 according to some reports – fell victim to hackers over the last couple of weeks thanks to SQL injection problems leaving sites vulnerable. The hacks redirect traffic to sites in China, where click-fraud is…

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