Qatari liquified natural gas (LNG) producer RasGas has been struck by an unknown virus that took its website and email servers offline last week.
RasGas stated last week that it had identified the virus on Monday. "Operational systems both onsite and offshore are secure and this does not affect production at the Ras Laffan Industrial City plant or scheduled cargoes," the company stated.
One of the few benefits of being old is that even if your memory is starting to fade, you can still remember more history than the youngster next to you. That's why I'm always sent the latest malware reports by friends, coworkers, customers, and other reporters, then asked to gauge the seriousness of the latest supposed superthreat.
Cybercrooks are attempting to obtain few bucks for a lame piece of Mac malware, dubbed NetWeird.
NetWeird (AKA NetWeirdRC) has been offered for sale for the princely sum of $60 through underground cyber-crime forums, according to Mac security specialist Intego. The cross-platform malware potentially affects OS X (versions 10.6 and higher), Windows, Linux and Solaris.
Security researchers have determined that some new variants of a new malware family called "Crisis," aka "Morcut," can infect VMware virtual machines and Windows Mobile devices. But, a security expert at Trend Micro points to current evidence that says the majority of VMware's most widely deployed products are not currently under attack.
A timer found in the Shamoon cyber-sabotage malware discovered last week matches the exact time and date when a hacktivist group claims to have disabled thousands of computers from the network of Saudi Aramco, the national oil company of Saudi Arabia.
The hackers behind the Gauss cyber-espionage malware targeting banks in the Middle East are directing infected computers to connect to command-and-control servers used by the Flame spyware, researchers said today.
Mainstream antivirus software only has small window for detecting and blocking attacks, according to a controversial new study.
Many malware and viruses can be identified by detection software because of known bits of malicious code. But what if there was a virus compiled from little bits of programs you already had installed? That's just what two security researchers are looking into.
Vishwath Mohan and Kevin Hamlen at the University of Texas at Dallas are interested in how malware disguises itself in order to propagate more widely. After all, with virus detectors and operating systems getting frequent updates, any positively identified virus will be destroyed on sight around the world soon after.
The mystery malware that recently wreaked havoc on energy sector computers contains an amateur programming error that's not typical of state-sponsored attacks, security researchers said.
Reports have emerged from China of an ingenious new backdoor Android malware attack that has infected hundreds of thousands of subscribers and can prove difficult to de-install without technical support.
Dubbed Trojan!SMSZombie.A - 'SMSZombie' for short - by one of the companies reporting on it, the malware is said to have spread through the largest Chinese Android marketplace, GFan, piggybacking itself as a back door on the back of porn-themed wallpaper apps.
