The number of users victimized by malware specifically intended to rob personally identifiable information (PII) leapt 600 percent this year compared to the same period in 2008, according to a report released on Thursday by PandaLabs, a division of Bilbao, Spain-based Panda Security.
A new virus outbreak has been detected and reportedly spreading quickly. Researchers at SonicWALL and SophosLabs claim that the Win32.Induc virus infects applications built using Delphi, an object-oriented, visual programming environment derived from the Pascal language, used to develop applications for deployment on the web, Windows and Linux.
Ah another first, and once again China is at the forefront! We recently reported about a Chinese company sharing their huge malware database and now a group of Chinese companies has managed to develop the first SMS worm!
It’s a pretty cool concept, abusing the Symbian Express Signing procedure. It reminds me of the heydays of self-propagating e-mail worms when corporate e-mail servers were getting flooded because everyone in the company was sending the same attachment to everyone else in their address book.
LAGOS, Nigeria -- Online swindling takes dedication even in the best of times, the scammer said earnestly.
The spinal cord aches from sitting at a desk. The eyes itch from staring at a computer. The heart thumps from drinking bitter cola to stay awake for chats with Americans in faraway time zones. The wallet shrinks from buying potions that supposedly compel the Americans to pay.
Two researchers from Israeli security firm Radware have figured out a way to trick computers into downloading malware or take over a computer by hijacking the communications during the update process for Skype and other applications.
Think your cell phone is immune to viruses and other malware? Think again. According to a survey from SMobile Systems, one in 63 smart phones powered by the Symbian OS are infected with some form of malware.
Symbian isn't huge in the U.S. (it primarily appears on Nokia handsets) but worldwide it is a market dominatrix. Extrapolated over all the cell phones in the wild that run Symbian, that means millions of infected handsets out there.
If you want to find malware, then just look for the most sensational developments in the news. That's the theme running through MX Logic's August Threat Forecast, which was published today. Researchers at the security firm predict a whole new round of attacks that take advantage of users' interest in breaking news.
AVG's free antivirus product temporarily blocked users from getting to iTunes late last week, detecting it as a Trojan, the company said on Monday. For about five hours on Friday starting around 4 p.m. PDT, AVG users couldn't access iTunes because of the false alarm.
A few days ago, at WashingtonPost.com Brian Krebs blogged about businesses that had money stolen from them courtesy of malware on their computers.
One of the companies was Slack Auto Parts in Gainesville, Ga., which lost nearly $75,000 when "cyber intruders used malware planted on the controller's Windows PC .. [to] ... break into the company's bank accounts, create new user accounts at the bank, and then wire payments to money mules around the country."
The hugely talked-about computer worm seemed poised to wreak havoc on the world's machines on April Fool's Day. And then ... nothing much happened.
But while the doom and gloom forecast for the massive botnet -- a remotely controlled network that security experts say infected about 5 million computers -- never came to pass, Conficker is still making some worm hunters nervous.
