The 9.6 million players of the Facebook game Farm Town are being warned about fake security warnings popping up that are designed to mislead people into paying for antivirus protection they don't need.
Security experts are warning Windows Mobile phone users to beware of downloading games to their devices as it emerged that a Russian-speaking hacker has been uploading versions of a particular game with malicious Trojan programs hidden inside.
Sophos senior technology consultant Graham Cluley wrote on his blog yesterday that a number of Windows Mobile users are reporting that an unusual side effect of playing the 3D Anti-terrorist action” game – their phones are making expensive calls to international destinations.
A security researcher has demonstrated a proof-of-concept attack that could allow malicious PDF files to spread to other PDF files on a system without exploiting a specific vulnerability.
Jeremy Conway, a product manager at NitroSecurity, built on the work done by fellow security specialist Didier Stevens to come up with an attack that could spread malicious code into clean PDFs as part of an incremental update.
According to director of malware intelligence with ESET, Koobface's latest attack modus operandi is that it only infects users the first time the victim accesses the site.
Subsequent attempts generate what looks like a 404 error (page not found) and, says Harley, attackers do this to hamper the work of security researchers, so that it becomes more difficult to analyse subsequent differing versions of the malicious code.
More than a year after doomsday reports hinted that the Conficker worm would bring down the Internet, one-in-10 Windows PCs still have not been patched to plug the hole the worm wriggles through, new data shows.
And 25 of every 1,000 systems are currently infected with the worm.
No matter how good your security software, and how well you keep it up to date, there's always that nagging doubt: "What if some malicious program is interfering with my antivirus, protecting itself while hurting me?"
That's a legitimate question, and it's one of the reasons I frequently recommend that people use a second malware scanner to supplement their main antivirus program. But even that suggestion involves running a program already installed on your PC (and thus, possibly compromised), while something evil may be running in memory.
The coming Shanghai World Expo (1 May - 31 October 2010) has been exploited by hackers to circulate malware. The alert message was sent by the reporter's group in China.
The report tells that the mail seems to have come from the Expo news office. However, it was not sent by the Expo.
A new mobile virus named "MMS Bomber" has run rampant in China, and millions of Chinese mobile phones were impacted, reported Beijing Business News. The National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team/Coordination Center of China has alerted mobile users that the targets of the virus are mobile devices with S60 3rd OS, mostly Nokia and Samsung smart-phones.
Radware (Nasdaq: RDWR), the leading provider of integrated application delivery solutions for business-smart networking, today announced it will present a new model for protecting against botnet communications during a presentation at the computer security and hacking conference, Hackito Ergo Sum - "I hack, therefore I am" – in Paris, which is being held from April 8 – 10, 2010.
For the first time security researchers have spotted a type of malicious software that overwrites update functions for other applications, which could pose additional long-term risks for users.
The malware, which infects Windows computers, masks itself as an updater for Adobe Systems' products and other software such as Java, wrote Nguyen Cong Cuong, an analyst with Bach Khoa Internetwork Security (BKIS), a Vietnamese security company, on its blog.
