The death of Korean leader Kim Jong Il resulted in an outpour of reactions from many people all over the world. Some people were saddened by the loss, while some were quite jubilant, saying that Kim Jong Il was “a repressive leader”. Cybercriminals, on the other hand, only had one reaction to the incident, [...]
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The KOOBFACE botnet is known for using the pay-per-install (PPI) and pay-per-click (PPC) business models in order to make money. In 2009 alone, the KOOBFACE gang earned about US$2 million. This was, however, not enough, as the gang upgraded their botnet framework with the creation of a sophisticated traffic direction system (TDS) that handles [...] Last week reports surfaced about a “zero-day” exploit for Adobe Reader (CVE-2011-2462) that had been actively used in targeted attacks beginning in November. The malicious PDFs were emailed to targets along with text encouraging the target to open the malicious attachment. If opened, the malware known as BKDR_SYKIPOT.B installs onto the target system. The [...] On Thursday, the U.S. House of Representatives discussed the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), a proposal that would give the U.S. Government new tools to fight the online sale of infringing or counterfeit goods. Trend Micro is aware of the ongoing legal and policy complexities involved in balancing protection of intellectual property rights with censorship [...] The Android Market was once again infiltrated by malware, as a handful of premium service abusers (which we detect as ANDROIDOS_RUFRAUD.A) posed as legitimate apps were uploaded to the site. A few users were able to install the malicious apps before Google took them down– a fast reaction due to the quick responses from vigilant [...] |
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