Spanish Ministry of Interior arrests 3 botnet masters operating a 12M+ infected hosts botnet that managed to steal sensitive data from 800,000 users across 190 countries, some of which include Fortune 1000 companies and 40 major banks.
The intensive multitasking on behalf of the Koobface gang, next to the fact that the Koobface botnet is the tip of the iceberg for their malicious operations, prompts the publishing of this top 12 things you didn’t know about the Koobface gang list.
A newly released report shows that based on more than a trillion Web requests processed in 2009, throughout the past year, Adobe Reader/Adobe Acrobat exploits not only outpaced the use of Flash exploits, but also, grew to 80% of all exploits the company encountered in 2009.
With millions of personal records and payment card information stolen on a regular basis, several recently released reports independently confirm the main sources of breaches. Not surprisingly, that’s not zero day flaws, not even insiders, but good old fashioned SQL injections next to malware.
Researchers from Cyveillance are calling the recently launched “Twitter of personal service” Blippy, a “spear phisher’s dream” due to the real-time purchasing history shared by its users. Does Blippy really pose a security risk?
