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Tag: trojan

  • 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…

  • Cyber attackers breach defences at secret US labs

    Spearphishing and trojans penetrate research lab security. At least one major US science lab, used to handle highly classified government and military material, has had its networks penetrated by hackers, using targeted email campaigns to sneak custom trojans onto systems and extract data. While no information has emerged on the source of the attacks, rumours…

  • 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…

  • Phishing trojan targets Mac OSX

    DNS hijack disguised as codec threatens Apple systems. A new trojan affecting Apple ‘s Mac OSX operating system – a relative rarity in the malware world – has been seen in the wild. The trojan, thought to belong to the highly prevalent Zlob (aka Puper) family, is being served by numerous fake codec sites, linked…

  • Melissa has users CAPTCHA’d

    Spammers offer strip show for correctly completed CAPTCHAs. Spammers have spotted a new opportunity for getting humans to help them get past the CAPTCHA tests put in place to prevent illegal use of webmail accounts: promise users a series of photographs of an increasingly scantily clad woman for every CAPTCHA they complete. The user is…

  • Storm spams promise spooky Halloween

    Tricks not treats as skeleton game emails link to attack. The ‘Storm’ attack has once again taken advantage of a popular cultural occasion to spam out the latest wave of links to fake online games, which hide new variants of trojans designed to hijack systems and add them to a global zombie network. Previous dates…

  • PDF trojan exploits Adobe flaw

    Reader/Acrobat vulnerability targeted day after patch release. A vulnerability in Adobe ‘s popular PDF-viewing software Adobe Reader and editing suite Acrobat , first reported a month ago , was patched on Monday in an update released two weeks after the company issued a workaround to minimise exposure. The following day, PDFs containing exploits for the…

  • Storm attack strikes back

    Cute kitten cards cover latest wave of malware. The Storm attack has returned with yet another wave of blended attacks, with links to the drive-by download sites of the initial trojan spammed out under cover of humorous kitten ecards. The ecard tactic has been a favourite of the gang behind the attack for some months…

  • St. Petersburg US Consulate website hacked

    Malware served by official government site. Web-watchers at Sophos have reported spotting malware hosted on the website of the US Consulate in St. Petersburg, using obfuscated JavaScript and hidden iframes to silently download trojans to vulnerable systems. The hack was part of a sizeable attack targeting vulnerable web servers worldwide last week, with over 400…

  • Yahoo!-owned ad firm serves up trojans

    Infectious flash adverts displayed on major sites. Advertising supplied by ad firm Right Media , a company bought out by web giant Yahoo! earlier this year after an initial investment in October 2006, has been serving up ads which use exploits to drop malware onto vulnerable systems. The ads are thought to have appeared on…