A report released Wednesday indicates an organization on average experiences a malware-related event every three minutes, often involving business-related spear phishing and targeting technology companies.
Security-related policy or legislation is enacted and then enforced to protect corporate, government or military interests. Civil organizations are often left flailing in the wind, fending for themselves with fewer IT resources and experience than a Middle America mom-and-pop operation. Yet these non-governmental—and not-for-profit—organizations have tasked themselves with helping those targeted by lethal adversaries who aren’t just after corporate secrets, but are out to deny people their freedom or, in some cases, their lives.
Nearly a year since the Flashback Trojan surfaced and ultimately infected more than 600,000 Apple OS X computers, the author of the malware may haven been discovered.
Much like malware that was discovered last year, a new Trojan has been reported that relies on detecting mouse clicks to evade sandbox analysis. BaneChant masquerades as a Word document and incorporates advanced evasion techniques making it stealthier than its predecessor.
Tibetan activists in China as well as those living in exile around the world are being targeted by dangerous malware that not only steals data from infected computers, but also has graduated to reporting location data from mobile devices for surveillance purposes.
Look out for email attachments offering better sex tips and news about newly developed Chinese stealth frigates, because they are loaded with malware, according to a Securelist report written by Kaspersky Lab expert, Ben Godwood.
Microsoft said it has received 70,000 reports this week of a new Trojan disguised as an Adobe Flash Player update that will change your browser’s home page and redirect a Web session to an attacker’s page.
Some spammers, looking to launder the dirty links they email you, are relying on the positive reputation of Google Translate to redirect victims to rogue websites. Researchers at Barracuda Labs who maintain the company’s spam honeypots have spotted a rash of illicit messages trying to beat reputation filters by using this tactic.
At least one group of cybercriminals has taken to Evernote, the popular cloud-based note-taking and data-sharing service, as a base of operations for a data stealing Trojan, according to TrendMicro threat response engineer Nikko Tamana.
China has become the go-to bogeyman behind every cyber attack or malware campaign, but if you’re looking for the most malicious hosting providers on the Web, you won’t find any of the top 10 in China. In fact, the United States and Russia have many more bad hosting providers in the top 20 than China does.
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