Hackers mailing malware-infested CDs to banks

August 27th, 2009 Posted by Ryan Naraine @ 10:29 amCategories:Adobe, Anti Virus, Arbitrary Code Execution, Browsers, Data theft, Exploit code, Firefox, Flash, Malware, Microsoft, Mozilla, Patch Watch, Rootkits, Spam and Phishing, Spyware and Adware, Viruses and WormsTags:Bank, Union, CD, Malware, Hacker, Attack, Financial Services, Security, Viruses And Worms, Ryan NaraineJust call it the throwback [...]

Research: 80% of Web users running unpatched versions of Flash/Acrobat

According to a research published by Trusteer earlier this month, 79.5% of the 2.5 million users of their Rapport security service run a vulnerable version of Adobe Flash, with 83.5% also running a vulnerable version of Acrobat. The company has also criticized Adobe by insisting that their update mechanism “does not meet the requirements [...]

Report: Snow Leopard To Confront Mac Malware

Adding anti-malware to Snow Leopard is a Catch-22 for Apple: In solving a problem, Apple must first admit a problem actually exists. Which is hard when one of your major selling points is that you’re secure and your major competitor–Microsoft Windows–is not.

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Bogus Snow Leopard Update Sites Lead to DNS Changers

Before the August 28 official release of Apple’s OS X Snow Leopard, cybercriminals are already hitchhiking on this to proliferate their malicious activities. Earlier today, Advanced Threat Researcher Feike Hacquebord discovered several fake sites that supposedly give Mac users free copies of the newest version of the Mac OS, Snow Leopard. However, accessing these [...]

Investigations on a Cybercrime Hub in Estonia

Tartu, Estonia is the hometown of an Internet company that, from the outside, looks just like any other legitimate Internet service provider (ISP). On its website (see Figure 1), the company lists services such as hosting and advertising. According to publicly available information, it posted more than US$5 million in revenue and had more than [...]