Wednesday, June 25th, 2014
Following a downward trend during the past two years, the number of new rootkit samples rose in the first quarter of this year to a level not seen since 2011, according to statistics from security vendor McAfee.
The sudden spike in rootkit infections during the first three months of the year ...
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2014
The recent effort to disrupt the Gameover Zeus botnet includes plans for Internet service providers to notify victims, but some security researchers think ISPs should play an even bigger role in the future by actively quarantining infected computers identified on their networks.
Law enforcement agencies from several countries including the FBI ...
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Sunday, January 5th, 2014
Yahoo.com visitors over the last few days may have been served with malware via the Yahoo ad network, according to a security firm in the Netherlands. Users clicking on some of the ads were redirected to sites armed with code that exploits vulnerabilities in Java and installs a variety of different ...
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Monday, September 28th, 2009
To combat worms, Trojans and other malware, a team of security researchers wants to use ants.
Not the actual live insects, of course, but computer programs modelled to act like ants in the way they roam a network and search for anomalies. "Ants aren't intelligent," says Glenn Fink, a senior research ...
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Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Researchers at Websense have discovered a mass injection attack that is redirecting Web browsers to a malware-bearing site.
According to a weekend report by researchers at Websense, thousands of legitimate Web sites have been discovered to be injected with malicious Javascript, obfuscated code that leads to an active exploit site.
"The active ...
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