A new variant of the Citadel financial malware uses in-browser injection techniques combined with extensive content localisation to steal log-in credentials and credit card information from users in different countries, according to ...
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With the previously $40,000 Carberp Trojan's source code now freely available, experts expect exceptionally destructive variants of the malware to flow onto the Internet. Carberp-based malware is expected to take advantage of the bootkit ...
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The source code for the Carberp financial malware has been leaked online, increasing the risk that other cybercriminals will create their own variants based on it, according to researchers from Russian cybercrime investigations firm ...
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Over three quarters of Android threats are malicious apps that send SMS messages to premium rate numbers and could be mitigated by a protection feature present in Android 4.2, according to researchers from networking vendor Juniper ...
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NHTSA Administrator David Strickland At the Consumer Reports "Fuel Economy: Now and in the Future" event last week, the theme was easy to spot: No matter what kind of car you want, you can find one today that gets good gas mileage. And ...
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A newly discovered Trojan program exploits previously unknown flaws in Android and borrows techniques from Windows malware in order to evade detection and achieve persistence on infected devices. Security researchers from antivirus firm ...
The number of malware samples that use P-to-P (peer-to-peer) communications has increased fivefold during the past 12 months, according to researchers from security firm Damballa. The largest contributors to this increase are advanced ...
Threats from malware specifically targeting social media and the number of spam emails have both risen significantly in the first quarter of this year. That's according to the McAfee Threats Report: First Quarter 2013, which reveals that ...
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Google is likely to have to agree to more concessions before the European Union's antitrust probe into the web giant is settled, says Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia (pictured). The world's number one web firm has been under ...
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Google is facing another antitrust probe by US regulators into whether the firm is using its Google is facing another antitrust probe by US regulators into whether the firm is using its position as the world's number one web organisation to ...
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A new variant of the Citadel financial malware is targeting users of the Payza online payment platform by launching local in-browser attacks to steal their credentials, according to researchers from security firm Trusteer. Citadel is a ...
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The amount of cyber-criminal activity associated with the Zeus family of financial Trojan programs has increased during the past few months, according to security researchers from anti-virus vendor Trend Micro. “The notorious ...
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Previously unknown Mac OS X spyware, signed with a valid Apple Developer ID, has turned up on the laptop of an activist from Angola at a human rights conference in Norway. Security researcher and privacy activist Jacob Appelbaum found the ...
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Security researchers from Damballa have found a new variant of the Pushdo malware that's better at hiding its malicious network traffic and is more resilient to coordinated takedown efforts. The Pushdo Trojan program dates back to early ...
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The Android threat landscape is growing in both size and complexity with cybercriminals adopting new distribution methods and building Android-focused malware services, according to a report from Finnish security vendor F-Secure. The ...
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