An article from Threat Post on Spear Phishing: It appears that a spear phishing campaign was the genesis for the wiper malware infections that ultimately knocked several prominent South Korean banks and broadcasters offline last week, according to a malware analysis performed by researchers from the Finnish cybersecurity firm F-Secure. The South Korean NSHC Red […]
An article from Tech New Daily about a malwere wiped unix windows machines: The malware that hit South Korean banks and broadcasters yesterday (March 20) was a wrecking machine, deleting core files on both Windows and Unix-based machines and rendering them inoperable, researchers have found. Analysis by security firms AlienVault, McAfee, Sophos, Symantec and Trend […]
An article from Cnet about New adware Trojan circulating that targets Mac OS X systems: A new Mac OS X Trojan is making the rounds, installing an adware plug-in that renders ads on Web pages to generate revenue for its author. Dubbed Trojan.Yontoo.1, it is the most prominent of an increasing number of adware Trojans […]
An article from Threat post on Vulnerabilities Continue to Weigh Down Samsung Android Phones: Attackers have long had an affinity for having their way with Android phones, but the hammer seems to have really come down over the last few months when it comes to devices manufactured by Samsung. Independent Italian researcher Roberto Paleari discussed […]
An article from Ehacking News on South Korea being hit by cyber attack: Yesterday South Korea was hit by a massive cyber attack . The attack disturbed the functioning of three banks and two TV channels. The bank were hit such that no financial transactions can be made. The TV channels were affected by locking their computers hence not allowing the TV […]
An article from Tech News Daily on iphone security update: Security compromisers may not be the most beloved demographic on the Web, but they’re nothing if not industrious. Apple’s latest iOS update, 6.1.3, has been out for less than two days, but one trickster has already infiltrated the update. Using only a paperclip and some […]
An article from Dark reading: Just earlier this week, I warned about a malware attack that had been widely spammed out posing as a message from DHL Express International. The trick, which is an old one, goes like this. Cybercriminals spam out an email, with forged header information, tricking you into believing that it is […]
An article from dark reading in there Database Security section: In spite of a fairly mature product set and boardroom directives to protect sensitive databases, the average enterprise today still has a long way to go before it’ll apply comprehensive database security technology and processes to all of their critical databases, let alone all of […]
An article from Cnet news about Botnet : A newly discovered botnet has found a way to siphon cash from advertisers. Spider.io, a security researcher, yesterday announced that it has discovered a new botnet, called Chameleon, that’s targeting “at least” 202 Web sites. The botnet is made up of over 120,000 host machines running Windows, […]
An article from threat post about botnet: A controversial Internet scanning project has come under fire for illegally accessing and running code on remote machines. The Internet Census 2012 project, revealed Sunday in a post to Seclists.org, discovered 420,000 embedded devices accessible using default credentials. The unnamed researcher behind the project then used the devices […]
