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Avast false alarm hits Steam's weekend gamers
'I am sworn to carry your burdens'
Freebie anti-virus scanner Avast falsely identified an executable associated with the popular Steam gaming platform as a Trojan on Sunday.…
Posted on 6 February 2012 | 5:23 pm
Job-seeking Marriott hacker gets 30 months' porridge
Nabbed and jailed after Secret Service sting
A job-seeking Hungarian hacker who tried to land work with Marriott by hacking into the hotel chain's network before "offering" to sort out the resulting mess has been found guilty of hacking and attempted extortion and jailed for 30 months.…
Posted on 6 February 2012 | 1:03 pm
Biz urged to blast DNSChanger Trojans before safety net comes down
8 March cutoff following Operation Ghost Click
Half of all Fortune 500 companies still contain computers infected with the DNSChanger Trojan, weeks after a FBI-led takedown operations targeting the botnet's command-and-control infrastructure.…
Posted on 3 February 2012 | 6:28 pm
Kelihos botnet BACK FROM THE DEAD
Bloodied spam-spewing zombie staggers in
The spam-spewing Kelihos botnet has returned from the dead.…
Posted on 2 February 2012 | 2:04 pm
Trojan smuggles out nicked blueprints as Windows Update data
Malware backdoors government-targeted kit 'using Adobe 0-days'
Security watchers have uncovered a new highly targeted email-borne attack that uses a supposed conference invitation as a lure - and disguises extracted data as Microsoft Update traffic.…
Posted on 1 February 2012 | 9:04 am
Virus-slingers abuse WordPress vulns, dose punters with exploit
Blogs also infected with information-harvesting Trojan
Malware-spreaders are hacking into vulnerable WordPress-powered sites in order to drive traffic towards pages loaded with exploits.…
Posted on 31 January 2012 | 2:58 pm
Sexy Girls Puzzle: Android Trojan or eager ad-slinger?
Researchers split on Counterclank's naughtiness
Security researchers are split on the seriousness of an Android "malware" campaign that some estimates suggest may have "infected millions" of smartphones via gaming apps from Google's Android Market.…
Posted on 30 January 2012 | 5:02 pm
Blackhole crimeware kit drives web threat spike
Report: Conficker also still causing mayhem
Fake anti-virus scams are on the wane but drive-by-download threats have rocketed over the past year thanks to the hugely popular Blackhole crimeware kit, while Conficker remains prolific some three years after its release, according to Sophos.…
Posted on 26 January 2012 | 3:27 pm
Super-powered 'frankenmalware' strains detected in the wild
Virus-worm crossbreeds will trash systems faster than ever before
Viruses are accidentally infecting worms on victims’ computers, creating super-powered strains of hybrid software nasties.…
Posted on 25 January 2012 | 11:17 am
Sourcefire jumps into anti-malware market
Cyber-outbreak defence tech to shore up big biz
Sourcefire, the security biz behind the commercial versions of the open-source Snort intrusion-detection software, is bowling itself at enterprises and touting tech designed to quickly detect and block malware outbreaks.…
Posted on 23 January 2012 | 4:28 pm
Facebook, experts spar over Ramnit worm contagion
Security boss says stalking site is free of bank account-raiding malware
Facebook has downplayed the significance of Ramnit, a recently discovered worm that attempts to steal login credentials for the social networking site.…
Posted on 19 January 2012 | 10:21 am
Five Koobface botnet suspects named by New York Times
Trojan coins millions for its masters, say researchers
Five suspected masterminds behind the infamous Koobface botnet have been unmasked in a move abetted by Facebook to put the heat on cyber-crimelords.…
Posted on 18 January 2012 | 10:25 am
New stealthy botnet Trojan holds Facebook users hostage
Victims must pay $25 to get back into stalkerbase
A new strain of cybercrime Trojan is targeting Facebook users by taking over their machines and shaking them down for cash.…
Posted on 18 January 2012 | 8:29 am
Japanese boffins fear virus nicked spacecraft blueprints
Tokyo, we have a problem
Japanese space engineers have admitted one of their computers has been infected by a Trojan that may have leaked sensitive data, including system login information, to hackers.…
Posted on 17 January 2012 | 12:03 pm
Pro-Israel hackers threaten tit for tat after credit card leak
Saudi e-stores and Israeli diplomat's site nobbled in cyber-spat
Pro-Israel hackers have reportedly breached Saudi shopping sites in retaliation for the publication of Israeli credit-card details by a pro-Palestinian "Saudi" hacker last weekend.…
Posted on 10 January 2012 | 4:29 pm
German cops hacked in revenge for dad spying on daughter
Payback after officer used cyber-bug at home
An infiltration of a German federal security system last year has been traced back to a botched attempt by an unnamed security official to use a Trojan to monitor his daughter's internet usage, Der Spiegel reports.…
Posted on 10 January 2012 | 11:49 am
Dammit Ramnit! Worm slurps 45,000 Facebook passwords
Bank-raid malware is latest nasty to infect social networks
A bank account-raiding worm has started spreading on Facebook, stealing login credentials as it creeps across the site, security researchers have revealed.…
Posted on 5 January 2012 | 2:33 pm
Man convicted of murder gets retrial after virus eats transcripts
Refresh, restart
A US man who had been convicted on a second-degree murder charge will get a new trial after a computer virus destroyed transcripts of court proceedings.…
Posted on 5 January 2012 | 11:41 am
Kaspersky claims ‘smoking code’ linking Stuxnet and Duqu
Warns of three other unknown variants
Researchers at Kaspersky Lab are claiming to have found proof that the writers of the Stuxnet and Duqu malware are one and the same, and are warning of at least three new families of advanced malware potentially in circulation.…
Posted on 30 December 2011 | 12:54 am
Facebook scams now spread by dodgy browser plug-ins
Cybercrooks deploy new weapon to pollute profiles
Con men have developed a new approach towards spreading scams on Facebook.…
Posted on 22 December 2011 | 10:01 am
