An analysis of the Qakbot worm finds the malware is more prevalent than ever and outfitted with an arsenal of data theft tools. That’s bad news for unemployed workers in Massachusetts, where the Department of Labor network is still recovering from a rampant Qakbot infection.
Fake Apple Store order notification emails floating around the Web right now are redirecting to a new site pushing the same old familiar list of discount (read: fake) pharmaceuticals.
Security researchers have come across a new rootkit that is designed specifically to infect 64-bit Windows systems and steal users’ online banking credentials. It’s believed to be the first piece of malware of its kind that is capable of compromising x64 systems.
Attackers used the infamous SpyEye Trojan to target Verizon’s online billing page for nearly a week earlier this month, trying to nab users’ sensitive personal and financial information, researchers say.
Mobile malware is on track to double again in 2011, as it has every year since 2007, according to a report from Kaspersky Lab.
In the course of the last five or six years, there has come to be a fairly well-established and familiar cycle for data breaches. Company X discovers an attack that compromised some customer data; it investigates and assesses the damage; it reports the breach to the relevant authorities and apologizes publicly while absorbing a beating from the press and angry customers; it moves on with its business. But Sony officials have added another link to that chain–the righteous defense–and in the process may have changed forever the way that companies handle data breaches.
An untold number of computers at the Massachusetts Department of Unemployment Assistance and Department of Career Services were compromised in April, leading state officials to warn hundreds of thousands of people that their personal information may have been stolen as part of the attack. However, officials said they are unsure at this point whether any data was actual stolen, and if so, how much.
Small businesses aren’t taking the necessary precautions to protect themselves from cyber attacks, according to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) – but Uncle Sam wants to help.
Barrett Brown, the reporter who became a media-friendly spokesperson for the shadowy hacking group Anonymous says that he is quitting the group in the wake of a public feud that has broken out between different hacker factions within the loosely organized collective.
The security geeks at Geek.com were busy this weekend, after Web security firm zScaler found evidence that an exploit kit was using malicious iframe attacks to try to attack visitors to the company’s Web site, according to a Zscaler report Sunday.
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