All the stories tagged with malware
New Self-Deleting Trojan Malware Discovered By Microsoft
04/16/2013, Microsoft, one of the major names worldwide where software is concerned, has stumbled upon a rather interesting discovery. First of all, a little context to help us get started off on the right footing. Microsoft does have their own anti-virus [...]
Android Malware Infections Tripled In 2012
04/15/2013, The smartphone used to be a safe environment to develop for, especially in its early days when there was no such thing as malware or viruses, or other kinds of malicious code. Well, times have definitely changed over the years, [...]
Malware Infected Results In Search Five Times More Common From Bing Than Google
04/14/2013, AV Test, an antivirus testing company from Germany, reports that Bing is five times more likely to show malware infected websites in search results than Google. The company evaluated searches over a number of search engines, Google and Bing included, [...]
South Korea Blames North For TV Stations, Banks Cyberattacks
04/10/2013, A few weeks ago, we reported on three South Korean television broadcasters and two banks becoming victims of a widespread malware attack, which resulted in serious network outages. The attack was perpetrated by “Whois Team,” which according to South Korea’s internet [...]
South Korean Broadcasters, Banks Crippled By Malware Attacks
03/20/2013, The digital world is starting to become a scary place with reports of numerous popular services getting hacked. We’ve seen ZenDesk, Evernote and even Dropbox suffer from hacker attacks, but a report is coming in from South Korea that may [...]
DroidCleaner Malware Discovered To Mess With Android Devices, PC To Spy On You
02/05/2013, Installing malware on your smartphone devices is something no one wants to do, but it does happen, especially for Android owners. A new Android malware has been uncovered that not only affects your Android device, but it’s also capable of [...]
Android 4.2′s built-in malware scanner might not be as effective as you might think
12/11/2012, When it comes to malware on our mobile devices, Android has gotten most of the flack to date, and Google has implemented several security measures in its Google Play store to help reduce malware infections. With Android 4.2, Google has [...]
Microsoft launches new #DroidRage campaign, wants to hear your Android malware horror story
12/05/2012, When it comes to malware on our mobile devices, Android seems to be receiving the most flack for it, and not surprisingly Microsoft has decided to use that against Android in their latest #DroidRage campaign. As you can see in [...]
Japanese Android Developers Successfully Infected 270,000 Phones With Malware
11/02/2012, Today Japanese police arrested five developers for embedding a virus into their Android apps. It’s no secret that a lot of apps on Android are suspect and often scummy, but what is a surprise is how many people they fooled: according to Japanese police, [...]
Notorious Cyberspy Caught By His Own Malware
10/30/2012, The nation of Georgia discovered a botnet trying to steal sensitive government documents, and what did they do? They gave the cyber-spy a taste of his own medicine, infecting his computer with the very same software he was targeting governments [...]
German Police monitor Gmail, Skype, and Facebook via snooping malware
10/10/2012, Efficient Germany might have run into a hiccup – especially after the government allegedly let it be known (by accident, of course), that the police in Germany did state that they perform monitoring duties on Skype, Google Mail, MSN Hotmail, [...]
FTC shuts down telemarketing scammers posing as tech support
10/03/2012, The FTC today froze the assets of 14 companies involved in a long-term scam. These companies, usually based in India, cold-called up English-speaking consumers posing as a representative of a major tech company, such as Microsoft, Symantec (makers of Norton [...]
Shamoon malware allegedly deals death blow to infected computers
08/17/2012, I guess it is a given these days to know that one ought not to simply open up any attachments in the email, as you can never quite tell whether there is some malicious code behind that file or not. [...]
