UK Ministry of Defence: Hackers Have Breached Top Secret Systems
The UK’s military’s head of cyber security warned that hackers have breached computer systems containing top secret data, The Guardian reported.
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Syrian Government Using Skype, Spyware To Monitor Rebels
In Syria, the crackdown on political activists continues, with reports of pro-Syrians using malware that targets and spies on users attempting to use popular VOIP software Skype.
Expert Warns That WordPress Autoupdate Feature Used To Infect Blogs With Malware
UPDATE: More than 1,000 Wordpress blogs are currently being infected by a form of malware that has ‘piggybacked’ its way onto the blogging platform using the Wordpress automatic update function, a security researcher has discovered.
In a post on the F-Secure Labs blog, Chief Research Officer Mikko Hypponen says the firm received a hard drive image from a “contact” within Syria who believed that his computer had been compromised. An F-Secure analysis of the drive’s contents and Web history revealed evidence of a targeted attack that used a malicious Skype chat link to install a copy of Xtreme RAT, a remote access tool that’s commercially available online.
As botnets continue as a major purveyor of malicious activity, finding new and improved ways to measure their influence will be key to preventing future attacks. But gaining an accurate read on active populations continues to prove difficult.
The Iranian government has discovered what it describes as a ‘hidden agenda’ behind a recent malware attack on the country’s Oil Ministry, according to a report published by the FARS News Agency.
Posing as the US Department of Justice (DoJ), a new variant of the Citadel Malware called Reveton is responsible for a ransomware campaign that attempts to extort $100 from its victims.
Unprotected users visiting a page hosting the much-discussed Flashback Trojan could be earning some serious cash for the malware’s creators, according to new research from Symantec.
Anti malware company Symantec released its threat report for 2011 on Monday. Buried in the dry statistics about the number of Web based attacks and malicious programs detected during the year are some surprising facts. Among them: religious-themed Web sites are among the dirtiest on the Internet.
VIEW SLIDESHOW Mac Malware through the YearsWith the recent glut of high profile Mac-based malware like MacDefender and Flashback, it’s easy to forget that Macintosh computers (and Mac malware) have been kicking around for more than thirty years – longer, even, than Windows malware. In fact, the first documented Mac virus actually predated some of the first PC viruses by a good four years.
