New mobile malware silently transfers account credit

Kaspersky Lab today warned users of five newly found variants of the Trojan-SMS.Python.Flocker mobile malware, targeting an Indonesian mobile provider’s service allowing users to transfer money or minutes to each other’s accounts. SMS Python Flocker is a known mobile malware family, whose previous versions used to automatically send SMS message from the infected mobile [...]

Apple QuickTime bitten by code execution flaws

Apple today released QuickTime 7.6 to fix at least seven serious security flaws that expose Mac OS X and Windows users to remote code execution attacks. The latest upgrade, available for Mac OS X v10.4.9 – v10.4.11, Mac OS X v10.5 or later, Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2 and SP3, covers vulnerabilities that [...]

Tricky Windows Worm Wallops Millions

Tricky Windows Worm Wallops MillionsA sneaky computer worm that uses a virtual Swiss army knife of attack techniques has infected millions of Microsoft Windows PCs, and appears to be spreading at a fairly rapid pace, security experts warn. Also, while infected PCs could be used for a variety of criminal purposes — from relaying [...]

US-CERT warning: Windows does not disable AutoRun properly

The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) has issued a technical cyber-security alert to warn that Microsoft’s guidelines for disabling AutoRun in the Windows operating system “are not fully effective” and argues that this “could be considered a vulnerability.” The U.S. CERT warning comes on the heels of live malware/worm attacks that take advantage of the [...]