All the stories tagged with: malware
‘Flame’ cyber weapon is a new threat
05/28/2012, The folks over at Kaspersky Lab have managed to pick up the rumblings of what they deem as a “new advanced cyber threat” which was specially designed to perform cyber espionage as well as retrieve valuable and important information (read: [...]
First Drive-By Malware Sites Discovered for Android
05/03/2012, Now that browsing the internet via a mobile device has become a norm, malware has also followed in that path. Lookout Mobile Security discovered some websites that have been designed in such a way that they only attack and infect [...]
Symantec Says Purpose for Flashback Botnet was Profit
05/01/2012, The Botnet called ‘Flashback’ which infected over 600,000 Mac computers a while back is believed to have been created to net its authors as much as $10,000 a day. According to a blog post by Symantec, the primary motivation [...]
Fake Instagram for Android discovered, contains malware
04/19/2012, Given the popularity of Instagram, its arrival on the Android platform certainly sent many Android users into a downloading frenzy. However due to the nature of Android apps which can be distributed outside of the Google Play store, some malicious [...]
Symantec reports that 140,000 Mac computers are still infected with the Flashback trojan
04/18/2012, It seems that despite Apple’s latest update which supposedly removed the Flashback trojan, not to mention the amount of publicity that the situation has received, you’d think that just about every Mac user would have checked their computers for it [...]
Sabpab Mac OS X trojan discovered, preys on the same Java vulnerability as Flashback
04/16/2012, Heads up Mac OS X users, it looks like yet another trojan has been discovered. Dubbed the Sabpab by security company, Sophos, the trojan has been described as a “basic backdoor trojan horse” that connects to a control server using [...]
Android Virus Lurking in Angry Birds Space Coveralls
04/12/2012, If you have been thinking about downloading the latest installment of the successful Angry Birds franchise, by all means go ahead. Head on over to Google Play and you should be able to find it in no time since it’s [...]
UpdtBot Android malware discovered, spreads through SMS
04/12/2012, Uh-oh, it looks like another malware has been discovered for Android devices. Dubbed the UpdtBot, the malware has been discovered by NQ Mobile Security Research Center and has been revealed to spread through SMS. The malware disguises itself as a [...]
Apple developing their own software to remove the Flashback trojan
04/11/2012, About a week ago, it was reported that a staggering 600,000 over Macs were infected with the Flashback trojan. Apple has since released an update to patch up the vulnerability, and while there have been releases of third-party tools to [...]
Over 600,000 Macs infected with Flashback botnet
04/04/2012, According to Dr. Web, a Russian antivirus company, there are more than 600,000 Macs around the world that has been infected by a malware known as the Flashback botnet. This particular malware was specially designed to steal personal information specifically [...]
Facebook profiles hijacked by Chrome extensions malware
03/26/2012, It is not that easy to remain safe online these days with so many threats hanging around, but that does not mean you are unable to do your bit in preventing any untoward incidents from happening. One of the stories [...]
Newly discovered Android malware could bypass Google Bouncer
02/07/2012, For those unfamiliar, Google recently unveiled Bouncer, a service which has been around for a while, and whose main purpose is to scan Android Market applications and look for patterns of potentially malicious code. According to Google, the implementation of [...]
Malicious app on App Store pulled
11/09/2011, Apple is famous for their closed ecosystem, and this is a double edged sword really. As with just about anything in life, there is always a good and bad side to it, and the presence of iOS devices as well [...]
