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  • Gach do bonn a mbaineann a chur chugainn

    Why cybercriminals may have a reason for using Irish language in a ransomware scam. According to a story that made the security headlines this weekend, and which seems to orginate from the Donegal Daily , a ransomware trojan has been discovered using Irish Gaelic as its language. Ransomware trojans aren’t new: they deny access to…

  • Ransom trojan demands Windows re-activation

    Criminals make money through calls to supposedly free phone number. A new piece of ransomware has been discovered that shows the PC user a blue screen and asks them to re-activate Windows by calling a supposedly free phone number. As it turns out, the number is far from free and is a way for the…

  • Malicious applications target Orkut

    Visitors to infected social network profiles redirected to phishing sites. Users of the social networking site Orkut have found themselves targeted by malicious applications that redirect visitors to phishing URLs, according to researchers at Kaspersky Lab . Orkut , founded by Google at the beginning of 2004, was one of the first big social networking…

  • File encryption blackmail scam returns

    Kaspersky warns of new and nasty data-ransom trojan. Malware analysts at Kaspersky Lab have warned of the return of the ‘Gpcoder’ trojan, a nasty piece of ‘ransomware’ which encrypts victims’ files and demands money for the decryption key. Previous outbreaks of the scam, seen sporadically since the first appearance of such nasties in 2004, have…

  • Monster haul of data reaped from job site

    Trojan gathers 1.6 million sets of jobseeker records. Researchers at Symantec have reported discovering a server carrying 1.6 million entries from the popular jobseeking website Monster.com , gathered by a trojan using stolen login information. The trojan, dubbed ‘Infostealer.Monstres’ by Symantec , uses logins to Monster ‘s sites for recruiters, which allow information on millions…

  • Ransomware returns

    Trojan hides personal data, demands money with menaces. A new version of a ransomware trojan has been sighted, recalling the warnings of two years ago when similar items first began to strike users, that this type of attack was likely to become commonplace. The latest trojan claims to encrypt files using the RSA 4096 algorithm,…