Tuesday, December 3rd, 2013
A few weeks ago, security researcher Dragos Ruiu publicly claimed that computers in his lab were being infected by some sort of stealthy over-the-air transmission method that relied on ordinary speakers and microphones to transmit the malware payload from system to system. Ruiu nicknamed this bug “badBIOS,” and research into ...
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Friday, November 29th, 2013
Kaspersky Lab has recorded several thousand attempts to infect computers used for online banking with a malicious programme that its creators claim can attack “any bank in any country”.
The Neverquest Trojan banker supports just about every possible trick used to bypass online banking security systems: web injection, remote system access, ...
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Friday, November 29th, 2013
We recently came across some malware of the SOGOMOT and MIRYAGO families that update themselves in an unusual way: they download JPEG files that contain encrypted configuration files/binaries. Not only that, we believe that this activity has been ongoing since at least the middle of 2010. A notable detail of the malware ...
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Thursday, November 28th, 2013
Trend Micro came across samples of an exploit targeting the recently announced zero-day vulnerability affecting Windows XP and Server 2003. This is an elevation of privilege vulnerability, which may allow a threat actor to gain certain privileges that enable him to do varied activities, including deleting or viewing data, installing programs, or ...
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Wednesday, November 27th, 2013
Symantec has discovered a new Linux worm that appears to be engineered to target the “Internet of things”. The worm is capable of attacking a range of small, Internet-enabled devices in addition to traditional computers. Variants exist for chip architectures usually found in devices such as home routers, set-top boxes ...
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