A new trojan hidden in what looks like a legitimate message from the logistics company FedEx has been detected.
The email informs recipients of a delivery failure and instructs them to download and print out an invoice copy to collect their package. Once opened, the attachment installs a trojan that changes the wallpaper and allows remote hackers to take control of the infected computer.
No matter how protected we think our computers are, no matter how much money we invest in acquiring the latest antivirus software, hackers still find a way to target our computers. While computer viruses are almost as old as computers themselves, a new type of spam has surfaced that not only victimizes computers, but shames the good name of the innocent end-user.
If you have experienced "undeliverable" email messages that bounce back into your inbox, or if you notice this happening in the near future, it may be the result of "backscatter".
A new report from security services provider ScanSafe finds that companies are at increasing risk of having employees inadvertently download backdoors and password stealers onto corporate computers from Web sites that have malicious software hidden on them.
A company in ScanSafe's focus group faced a nearly 500 percent greater risk of exposure to those threats in September than was faced in January of this year, according to ScanSafe's Global Threat Report released on Tuesday.
Just weeks after a BusinessWeek Web site was hit by an SQL injection (define) attack, comes news that Adobe has had to deal with two of its Web sites compromised the same way.
"I can confirm that the Adobe sites were affected," Richard Wang, manager of the US offices of security vendor Sophos Laboratories, told InternetNews.com. Sophos discovered the compromised sites.
This week, Asus confirmed that some of the Asus Eee Boxes have accidentally been shipped with a piece of Windows-based malware pre-installed. The Asus Eee Box is the company's new slimline desktop PC, in the style of the Mac Mini that Apple came out with a few years ago.
Savvy Internet users know that downloading unsolicited computer programs is one of the most dangerous things you can do online. It puts you at great risk for a virus or another time bomb from a hacker.
But even some sophisticated surfers could get taken in by a sneaky new attack in which criminals create fake YouTube pages _ dead-on replicas of the real site _ to push their malicious software and make it look like it's safe stuff coming from a trusted source.
Security company Webroot is warning those keen on following this grotesque circus of an election that hackers are exploiting trusting users of Gnutella-based file sharing networks. What appear to be campaign John McCain and Barack Obama campaign videos were found to be often seeded with malware.
In one test, of 34 search results for "Obama Speech" on FrostWire, 14 of the results produced contained active malware. Of the 19 search results for "McCain Speech," five were found out. Two lessons there: Obama speeches are more popular, and more hip to target.
A Trojan horse program now available to a growing number of fraudsters can add data entry fields to legitimate online banking sites and entice consumers to give up sensitive information such as bank card numbers and PINs (personal identification numbers).
Security experts have so far identified about 500 viruses or other types of malware or security vulnerabilities that target mobile phones, a newspaper report said on Sunday.
Phones are indeed vulnerable to the same types of security threats from malware that face PCs, the San Jose Mercury News reported. "The more that phones can perform the same functions as PCs, the greater the chance they will have similar vulnerabilities," the paper said.
Social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace give scam artists and virus writers new ways to package tried-but-true tricks. The latest example of this making the rounds is an e-mail that appears to be an invitation from Facebook to add a friend: A recipient who opens an attached image to take a look at their new friend instead opens the door for hackers to compromise his PC.
Internet security firm Websense warns about this latest scam, which takes advantage of common notifiers sent by Facebook to alert users when another user adds them as a friend on their social network.
