In a new twist, spammers have built a botnet that sends SMS spam through infected Android phones, shifting the potentially pricey cost of sending spam to victims. The trend, spotted by security vendor Cloudmark, poses a new challenge ...
Tags: spammers, a mobile spam campaign, spam messages, Android
Security researchers have uncovered a highly sophisticated, multi-tiered, global financial fraud ring that has attempted fraudulent transfers of up to 1.6bn from at least 60 banks This fraud empire, discovered by researchers from security ...
Tags: financial fraud, security, banking system, financial security
Cybercriminals no longer control one of the world's largest spam botnets, Grum, because all of the servers the botnet relied on for receiving commands were shut down, according to researchers from security firm FireEye. The last Grum ...
Tags: Cybercriminals, spam botnets, Grum, servers
A growing army of malware delivery networks, known as malnets, account for two thirds of all cyber attacks, and security firm Blue Coat claims most current technologies offer an inadequate response to the threat, according to new analysis. ...
Tags: Blue Coat, botnet, cyber attack, Malnet, malware
Cyber criminals are using computers infected with a particular piece of malware to power a commercial proxy service that funnels potentially malicious traffic through them, according to security researchers from Symantec. Three months ...
Tags: Black Market, malware, Proxy, Symantec, Computers
IDG News Service - Brand-new laptop and desktop computers sold in China contain preinstalled malicious software, which has infected millions of computers around the world, according to an investigation by Microsoft revealed on Thursday. ...
China and the U.S. were the two largest sources of Internet-attack traffic in the first quarter of 2012, increasing to account for 16% and 11% respectively, according to Akamai Technologies. Attack traffic from China increased three ...
Tags: China, U.S., internet attacks, the first quarter of 2012
HP this week will unveil a software-defined networking portfolio that spans infrastructure, control plane operations and applications in an effort to lead the emerging SDN market. HP will roll out its own SDN controller, a separate ...
Tags: Cisco, highlightedpost, HP, Juniper, SDN
With the advent of mobility and the influx of BYOD in enterprise, employers are struggling to keep control of their networks, according to John Yun, Director, Product Marketing, Blue Coat. Yun, who is in Dubai promoting Blue Coat’s ...
Tags: Blue Coat botnets, BYOD, cyber attacks, hackers
Years ago the typical hacking scenario involved a lone attacker and maybe some buddies working late at night on Mountain Dew, looking for public-facing IP addresses. When they found one, they enumerated the advertising services (Web server, ...
Microsoft has uncovered a vulnerability in the PC supply chain that allows hackers to pre-install malware-infected copies of Windows onto new machines. As a result, the company has received approval from a federal court to strangle a ...
Tags: Microsoft, PC, surgical sinkhole
Microsoft has published evidence of an extraordinary conspiracy in which potent botnet malware was apparently installed and hidden on PCs during their manufacture in China. In ‘Operation B70′ started in August 2011, Microsoft ...
Tags: Microsoft, PC, Malware, backdoor malware
Accusations that an Android-based botnet is spewing spam may, in fact, be no such thing, but instead a sign that criminals are exploiting bugs in the Yahoo Mail app for Google's mobile operating system, a security firm said today. ...
Tags: spam, Android, Yahoo Mail app
Microsoft has won a battle to permanently disrupt a haven for the Nitol botnet that it discovered within an Internet domain controlled by a Chinese ISP. The company has signed a private settlement that Peng Yong and Changzhou Bei Te Kang ...
Tags: botnet, Microsoft, nitol, settlement, Internet domain
The problem of ransom malware has reached epidemic proportions and could be extracting fraudulent payments from as many as 3 percent of victims, a Symantec report has calculated. In a world already afflicted by botnets, banking Trojans ...
Tags: botnet, cyber security, cybercrime, malware, Malware ransome, profits