Dennis Fisher talks with Ryan Naraine about the new Microsoft bug bounty program, how it may affect prices for vulnerabilities on the private market and why it took the company so long to start the reward program.
Facebook is no longer blocking visitors using the Tor anonymity service after its malware detection services saw a surge in activity this week from Tor exit nodes.
As many as 65 websites have been compromised and are hosting malicious ads redirecting visitors to websites hosting the ZeroAccess Trojan.
Never let it be said that attackers don’t keep up with the news. The crew behind the NetTraveler cyberespionage attacks is now using the news about the NSA’s PRISM surveillance program as bait in a new spear-phishing campaign.
Autorun malware used to be kind of a big deal around here. Worms that jump directly from removable media such as USB drives as soon as they are connected to a PC can cause some major trouble, spreading quickly through a network. Microsoft made a change to newer versions of Windows that disables the autorun […]
With a key election in Iran looming on Friday, Google officials say they have seen a major uptick in the volume of phishing attacks against users in Iran, possibly coming from the same group that was using fake Google certificates to attack Iranian targets in 2011 after the compromise of DigiNotar.
The Washington Free Beacon’s website has been attacked and malware is redirecting visitors to a site hosting the ZeroAccess rootkit and scareware.
Calling it the company’s “most aggressive” botnet operation operation to date, Microsoft provided details early Wednesday evening regarding a massive disruption of the Citadel botnet.
Researchers say the prevalence of peer-to-peer botnets has grown fivefold during the past 12 months with virulent malware such as ZeroAccess leading the way.
Kaspersky Lab researchers discover a new espionage malware campaign called NetTraveler, which is likely written by the same group in China responsible for Gh0st RAT and Titan Rain.
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