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Viruses & Malware
Worm may create an Internet of Harmful Things, says Symantec
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2013-12-04 01:48
Security researchers are gradually raising warnings that the Internet of Things will increase, by multitudes, the number of things that can be hacked and attacked.
The Hitchcockian plotlines are endless. Replace The Birds with flying Amazon delivery drones. Or imagine, as researchers did recently at Black Hat, someone hacking your connected toilet, making it flush incessantly and closing the lid repeatedly and unexpectedly.
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Virus takes user's photo via webcam
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2013-12-02 03:58
A rogue anti-virus product that blackmails people by secretly taking their picture with their webcam is on the rise.
Security solutions firm Webroot warns that the malware family – which includes the fake ‘Antivirus Security Pro' software – disables your computer then claims to have detected viruses and demands money from users to ‘buy the full version of product' and remove the threats.
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Weird PHP-poking Linux worm slithers into home routers, Internet of Things
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2013-11-28 14:45
Symantec has stumbled across a worm that exploits various vulnerabilities in PHP to infect Intel x86-powered Linux devices. The security biz says the malware threatens to compromise home broadband routers and similar equipment.
However, home internet kit with x86 chips are few and far between – most network-connected embedded devices are powered by ARM or MIPS processors – so the threat seems almost non-existent.
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Stuxnet worm analyzed as world's first true cyber-weapon
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2013-11-25 01:29
Stuxnet's creators recognized they had built the world's first true cyber-weapon and were more interested in pushing the envelope of this new type of digital warfare than causing large-scale destruction within targeted Iranian nuclear facilities, a study shows.
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Cryptolocker: The evolution of extortion
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2013-11-20 08:09
The Cryptolocker Trojan is an evolution of "ransomware," not a revolutionary change from past criminal attempts to extort money from PC owners, a security expert said today.
And the recent media blitz about the ransomware has elements of exaggeration about it.
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