Malware

Loozfon Android malware targets Japanese female users
ZDNet
What's particularly interesting about this Android malware, is that it also has a built-in spreading capability, namely, it sends spam stating that the sender can introduce the recipient to wealthy men. When users click on any of the links found in the ...
See all stories on this topic »BlackBerry users targeted with malware-serving email campaign
ZDNet
BlackBerry users targeted with malware-serving email campaign. Summary: Security researchers from Websense have intercepted a currently spamvertised malicious campaign, attempting to trick BlackBerry users into downloading and executing the ...
See all stories on this topic »Saudi Aramco restores network after malware attack
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See all stories on this topic »Crisis Malware's Attack Shows Success vis-à-vis Virtual Machines with VMware ...
SPAMfighter News
And though a malware attacking VMs as with Crisis is unprecedented, Katsuki simultaneously stressed that it didn't abuse security flaws within VMware's software. Instead it targeted the method of storing virtual machines in the form of the host ...
See all stories on this topic »Java zero day allegedly spotted in the wild
ZDNet
FireEye's Malware Intelligence Lab is making the claim that there is a new zero day vulnerability in the wild that affects the latest version of Java. Researcher Atif Mushtaq wrote on the company's blog that he spotted the initial exploit on a domain ...
See all stories on this topic »Blog Post from Paul Ducklin, Sophos
PRWire
When I first heard the full title of the paper, Frankenstein: Stitching Malware from Benign Binaries, and realised that its goal was to come up with a strategy for deliberately creating malware that is harder to detect, my gut reaction was, "We don't ...
See all stories on this topic »Safer Boots: Feds Urge Malware-Resistant BIOS
Democratic Underground
Malicious BIOS modification could be part of a sophisticated, targeted attack on an organization--either a permanent denial of service or a persistent malware presence," says the report. Previous examples of BIOS-infecting malware are relatively rare ...
See all stories on this topic »Saudi Aramco restores internal network after malware attack
ITworld.com
August 26, 2012, 8:46 PM — Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia's national energy company, said on Sunday it had repaired 30,000 workstations infected with a malicious virus earlier this month. The eighth largest refiner in the world said its main internal ...
See all stories on this topic »Sourcefire Empowers Secure Virtualization Through Information Superiority
Broadcast Newsroom
FireAMP Virtual protects VMware virtual instances from advanced malware and stops threats that bypass other security layers. The technology leverages cloud-based detection capabilities to analyze and block malware and lets enterprises create custom...
See all stories on this topic »IT's 9 biggest security threats
IDG News Service
It's little wonder why popular IT security practices just don't work against today'smalware, given that cyber crime has evolved into a multilevel, service-oriented industry with the blatant goal of fleecing companies and people out of their money and ...
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