Turkey Tops World in Per Capita Malware Encounters
Microsoft claims that Turkish machines encounter more malware than computers in any other country in the world.
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New Malware Attacks Target Syrian Activists
A new set of malware campaigns targeted at Syrian activists, journalists and NGOs has emerged, and security researchers say that the attackers are employing a variety of tactics, including a new OS X Trojan that could be part of a “false flag” operation. The details of the new round of attacks on government opposition groups […]
Adobe Warns of New License Key Scam Phishing Campaign
Adobe warned customers Friday about a new rash of phishing attacks “purporting to deliver license keys for a variety of Adobe offerings.”
The volume of government requests to Google for user data is continuing to increase, something that should come as no surprise in the current climate. In its latest transparency report, the company said that it received more than 25,000 requests for user data in the first six months of 2013, an increase of about 18 percent.
The attackers behind the Cryptolocker ransomware have infected between 200,000 and 250,000 systems to date worldwide and appear to have earned around $30 million in ransom so far.
Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso discuss the happenings in the security world of late, including the latest NSA revelations, the odd DGA Changer malware and the response of attackers to the death of Blackhole.
Without the Blackhole exploit kit around to inject malware such as the Zeus Trojan, keepers of the Cutwail spam bot have been forced to resort to some old-school methods of sending malware such as direct email attachments.
Researchers at Arbor Networks have discovered a new denial of service botnet called Trojan.Ferret.
Researchers have discovered that a strain of malware that may have been part of the attack in October on PHP.net is employing a DGA tactic that enables the malware to change the seed it uses to generate the random domains.
Kaspersky Lab researchers have uncovered the Chewbacca malware, a data-stealing Trojan that communicates over the Tor anonymity network.
