Cybercriminals are actively taking advantage of another vulnerability, this time in Microsoft Office Excel. This is the third threat in less than two weeks that featured exploits. Exploit codes on IE7 and PDF bugs were discovered last week and earlier this week respectively. Microsoft acknowledges the Excel vulnerability in a recent bulletin. The software [...]
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There have been some concerns over whether another new Conficker variant (DOWNAD for Trend Micro) has been released or not. Recall that in January, we have witnessed cybercriminals update WORM_DOWNAD.A’s routines to include being able to propagate via more channels to become WORM_DOWNAD.AD. Reports talk of yet more updated functionalities in a more recent [...] Hackers infiltrated popular tech business site eWeek.com yesterday using Google’s DoubleClick banner ads as a vehicle. Websense caught the malicious coding and published its results, which spurred eWeek to scour its code and remove all phony advertisements. Read entire article The Gmail downtime experienced today may have caused a nasty ruckus by frustrated users, but unknown to these users is an issue bigger than not being able to access email messages. In the midst of the commotion brought about by the outage lasting only a few hours, cybercriminals managed to squeeze in an attempt to [...] Xbox Live users, specifically winning players, are being targeted by hackers. Researchers believe that the attacks are done so other Xbox Live users could get back at the players who beat them in a game. A BBC report explains that the tools used in this hacking attack do not target the Xbox Live network but [...] |
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