A new variant of the RSPlug trojan, which targets Apple machines, was recently discovered in the wild, but quickly was fixed, Jamz Yaneza, a threat researcher with anti-malware firm Trend Micro, told SCMagazineUS.com Monday.
A decade ago there was no Facebook, no iPhone, and no Conficker. There was dial-up and AOL and a nasty virus called Melissa that ended up being the fastest spreading virus at the time.
CNET News talked to Dmitry Graznov, a senior research architect at McAfee Avert Labs who was among the researchers who worked to fight the Melissa outbreak and track down the creator.
Worries that the notorious Conficker worm will somehow rise up and devastate the Internet on April 1 are misplaced, security experts said Friday.
Conficker is thought to have infected more than 10 million PCs worldwide, and researchers estimate that several million of these machines remain infected. If the criminals who created the network wanted to, they could use this network to launch a very powerful distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack against other computers on the Internet.
As per the security news released by several security firms in the third week of March 2009, "March Madness", basketball championship among the US universities, became a lucrative target for hackers to spread malware.
Early this week, security firm Sophos discovered a new Trojan Horse virus which they are calling OSX/RSPlug-F. They even have a video of the virus in action! The virus' method seems to be a variation of the malware DNSChanger which was detected some time ago.
Another day, another virus warning, but this time it affects Macs as well as Windows machines.
It seems that the same band of Chinese hackers who've been churning out Trojans for Windows for years has now expanded its expertise to the Mac.
Everything now-a-days seems to be “Made in China” from toys and LED displays, to shoes and knock off designer handbags, to ink cartridges and electric smart cars. However, the latest product being heavily developed in China is malware. Unemployed techies are making a few extra yuan on the side working in cyber crime.
Large, name brand technology companies operating in China, such as Intel and Motorola have laid off folks in their Asian locations, as well as in the U.S. What does an ex-IT employee do? Find bugs, then sell them to the underground market.
Researchers are warming of a new worm that targets DSL routers running a distribution of Linux.
The psyb0t worm appears to be in circulation since the start of the year and targets routers running Mipsel, a form of the Devian Linux distribution designed for MIPS processors. The worm is believed to be the first of its kind and the researchers at DroneBL estimate it may have infiltrated as many as 100,000 routers.
According to Sophos, an online security company, computer hackers are taking advantage of people's interest surrounding the news of the death of Natasha Richardson, an English actress who met with an accident lately.
The company says that the online criminals are rapidly creating malevolent web pages and filling them up with key phrases pertaining to the death of the actress. The strategy that exploits content picked up from genuine news websites is designed to obtain a high rank for websites hosting malicious software on search engines.
A computer-science detective story is playing out on the Internet as security experts try to hunt down a worm called Conficker C and prevent it from damaging millions of computers on April Fool's Day. The anti-worm researchers have banded together in a group they call the Conficker Cabal. Members are searching for the malicious software program's author and for ways to do damage control if he or she can't be stopped.
They're motivated in part by a $250,000 bounty from Microsoft and also by what seems to be a sort of Dick Tracy ethic.
