Mobile Malware Found Disguised as Opera Mini

The recent rise of mobile computing has further signaled the need for users to have a good reliable mobile browsers, such as Opera Mini, installed into their smartphones or any mobile device. We believe that is for this reason that cybercriminals are currently using Opera Mobile as a disguise for mobile malware. We encountered [...]

BEAST and TLS/SSL Security: What It Means For Users and Web Admins

Recently, there’s been a lot of talk on how “SSL is broken”. This came on the heels of two researchers, Juliano Rizzo and Thai Duong, releasing what they called Browser Exploit Against SSL/TLS, or BEAST. If you believe some of the reports, secure connections as we know are worthless. This issue may seem quite [...]

TDL4 Worm Component Employs Bitcoin Mining

In the past we’ve reported a couple of attacks involving malware that turns affected systems into Bitcoin miners, and we also said that cybercriminals will increasingly do so in the future. Recently we encountered another malware –a familiar and known malware family — that turns the system into a Bitcoin miner. TDL4 is a [...]

Underground Radar: Possible Compromise of MySQL.com and its Subdomains

We recently found an interesting post in a Russian underground forum in the course of our research. People exchange information about their illegal activities in these kinds of forums. We found a user in the forum with the handle ‘sourcec0de’ and ICQ number ’291149′ who is currently offering root access to some of the cluster [...]

Crooks Are Looking At Your Mobile Wallet

I’ve read lately about the launch of Google Wallet and how it might revolutionize how we make payments. Instant payments by putting the phone near a terminal and keying in my PIN? Sounds good. As exciting as it might be to try out new technologies, if it has to do with my wallet, though, I [...]