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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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2014
Home computers and point-of-sale (POS) devices are both being targeted by a recently identified piece of malware that has already compromised thousands of payment cards – the majority of which were issued in the United States.
On May 23, Arbor Networks researchers discovered Soraya, a piece of malware that combines memory scraping techniques ...
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Monday, June 2nd, 2014
The Justice Department today announced a multi-national effort to disrupt the Gameover Zeus Botnet – a global network of infected victim computers used by cyber criminals to steal millions of dollars from businesses and consumers – and unsealed criminal charges in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Omaha, Nebraska, against an administrator of ...
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Monday, June 2nd, 2014
We highlighted in our quarterly threat roundup how various ransomware variants and other similar threats like CryptoLocker that now perform additional routines such as using different languages in their warning and stealing funds from cryptocurrency wallets. The addition of mobile ransomware highlights how these threats are continuously improved over time.
We recently encountered another variant that used the Windows ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2014
Malware creation has broken all records during this period, with a figure of more than 15 million new samples, and more than 160,000 new samples appearing every day, according to Panda Security.
Trojans are still the most abundant type of new malware, accounting for 71.85% of new samples created during Q1. ...
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