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Tag: malware

  • Fake security blogs lead to malware

    Blogger sites play on fears to draw victims to porn, trojans. According to a report from Aladdin , numerous fake security blogs have been set up on the Google -owned Blogger blogging system, some carrying security news items taken from other sites including Aladdin ‘s own website, and all redirecting to unrelated content, with porn…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Batch of Dutch MP3 players ships with malware

    Worm included as unwanted extra for music lovers. A shipment of MP3 players sold in recent months by Dutch firm Victory has been found to be infected with the Fujacks worm, which exploits autorun settings in Windows to be activated when a device is connected to a computer. The incident follows a series of similar…

  • Usual fare for holiday season

    Storm ecards and social site spyware mark unsurprising year end. With large portions of the globe celebrating various festivals over the past few weeks, an expected upsurge in malware attacks has been seen, including the now inevitable wave of emails from the ‘Storm’ worm attack (which targeted most important festivals in the past year), supplemented…

  • UK spooks spooked by possible Chinese hacking

    MI5 warns of suspected corporate espionage onslaught. The UK security service MI5 has issued an alert to 300 leading firms, warning them to ensure best possible security measures are in place to combat potential espionage attempts by Chinese hackers. The warning, sent to company bosses and IT security heads, was leaked to the press and…

  • Infected Seagate hard drives sold in Taiwan

    External Maxtor disks shipped carrying autorun datastealer. A shipment of Maxtor external hard drives, produced in Thailand by US-based Seagate and sold in Taiwan, has been found to be infected with Autorun trojans designed to gather sensitive data from machines connected to the storage devices. The high-capacity (300GB and 500GB) drives in the Maxtor Basics…

  • Russian Business Network leaves Russia

    Leading cybercrime hosting hub moves business to fresh pastures. The notorious Russian Business Network (RBN), recently making headlines for the massive amounts of malicious and criminal content passing through its servers, has suddenly shut up shop in its St. Petersburg base and apparently moved its services to other countries. A Trend Micro blogger, writing earlier…

  • Smaller vendors question rumours of impending doom

    Experts deny claims that flood of threats gives bigger firms advantage. High levels of new malware, emerging at an ever-increasing rate, may mean smaller security firms will no longer be able to keep up with their larger rivals, according to an analyst with market research firm Gartner . However, the suggestion that malware detection is…

  • AVK tops latest AV-Test charts

    Top four beat 99% in large collection scan. Testers at AV-Test.org have run 29 products over a massive collection of malware samples, with detection rates measured against 874,822 items including worms, trojans, bots and backdoors. The top two were multi-engine products, with GDATA ‘s AntiVirusKit ranked number one with 99.88% detection, and the Webwasher gateway…