Monday, May 5th, 2008
Researchers have discovered a new, complex spam attack that uses a sophisticated ruse to fool users into downloading malware.
The exploit, which researchers at BitDefender call "a spam-sending scheme of Byzantine complexity," features spam messages that claim to contain links to videos. When users try to click and see the video, ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
So you want to bank safely online? Then ditch your computer and make the transaction via your cell phone instead.
Using a mobile handset for this most sensitive online act might sound counterintuitive, given that phones are prone to being lost or stolen, but your cell phone might actually be safer ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Security's rising star, Webroot, plans to offer web and malware filtering as a service to SMBs, the first vendor of any size to offer such a capability in subscription form.
The software-as a service (SaaS) model, which extends the email filtering service already offered by the company, will appeal to smaller ...
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
The notorious Rock Phish gang has added a new twist to its phishing exploits that doesn’t require its victim to visit a malicious Website -- instead, it just loads a malicious keylogging Trojan onto the victim’s machine that steals information or credentials.
Both Trend Microand F-Secure over the past few days ...
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
Our friends from RSA have recently reported about the latest one-two punch employed by the infamous Rock Phish gang (also reported here and here ). Best known for their easy-to-use kits that yield professional looking phishing pages, Rock Phish now adds information-stealing malware — dubbed as the Zeus Trojan — ...
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