Thursday, September 8th, 2011
Hackers are using a new trick to cloak malicious files by disguising their Windows file extensions to make them appear safe to download, a Czech security company warned today.
The exploit, dubbed "Unitrix" by Avast Software, abuses Unicode for right-to-left languages -- such as Arabic or Hebrew -- to mask Windows ...
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Sunday, September 4th, 2011
Keep in mind that today's DNS hacks of popular websites such as acer.com, ups.com, theregister.co.uk were just that. A DNS hack. The actual sites themselves have not been compromised. For example:
UPS.com was altered to point to ups.com.85621INNSns1.yumurtakabugu.com
The attackers only changed the NS records for the website. This could have been much worse.
References:
http://isc.sans.edu/diary.html?storyid=11503&rss
http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/09/04/dns-hack-hits-popular-websites-telegraph-register-ups-etc/
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Thursday, August 25th, 2011
Researchers have uncovered evidence that the infamous Zeus login-stealing Trojan has been blended with the Ramnit worm to create hybrid malware that can attack online bank accounts while spreading across networks.
Security company Trusteer said it recently discovered a mutant version of Ramnit that appeared to be using a man-in-the-browser (MitB) ...
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Thursday, August 25th, 2011
MS Security Essentials is already detecting the killapache perl script that's floating around the Full Disclosure mailing list. This is one more reason that I love this AV program and strongly recommend it for all Windows' users.
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Sunday, August 21st, 2011
Launching a new Web app today comes with a few certainties, and one of them is, “I will be a target for hackers” for sure. So when an app as large and as high profile as Google+ launches, it will surely be one of the top targets for malicious activity. ...
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