The creators of a Web-based attack tool called Angler Exploit Kit have added an exploit for a known vulnerability in Microsoft's Silverlight browser plug-in to the tool's arsenal. Exploit kits are essentially malicious Web applications ...
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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 ...
A stealthy malicious software program is taking hold in some of the most popular Web servers, and researchers still don't know why. Last week, security companies Eset and Sucuri found Apache servers infected with Linux/Cdorked. If that ...
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A new exploit kit called Whitehole has emerged on the underground market, providing cybercriminals with one more tool to infect computers with malware over the Web, security researchers from antivirus vendor Trend Micro reported Wednesday. ...
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Following its latest threat report, security firm AVG has noted a “disturbing” new trend in the world of cybercrime – children with enough programming skills to code and distribute their own malware. The company said it ...
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Panda Security, The Cloud Security Company, today announced the beta release of version 6.50 of Panda Cloud Office Protection Advanced, the first cloud-based endpoint security solution with protection for Exchange Server. Main new ...
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Cyber criminals have moved beyond the traditional PC, targeting Android, social media and even the Mac OS X with new attacks, according to Trend Micro’s 2012 Annual Roundup and Mobile Security reports. Malware targeting Android alone ...
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An exploit for a previously unknown and currently unpatched vulnerability in Java is being used by cybercriminals to infect computers with malware, according to security researchers. An independent malware researcher who uses the online ...
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Following Google’s recent upgrade of Chrome, a new wave of bogus updates has been set upon the Internet by cyber criminals looking to steal online banking credentials and cause other problems for users. Google released its upgrade ...
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Cyber crime has continued to become more professional in 2012, with the barriers to entry becoming ever lower with the emergence of increasingly powerful toolkits and exploits for sale online. In the past year, cyber criminals have used ...
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An exploit for an unpatched vulnerability in the Microsoft XML Core Services (MSXML) has been incorporated into Blackhole, one of the most widely used Web attack toolkits, according to security researchers from antivirus firm Sophos. The ...
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IDG News Service - Java vulnerabilities are increasingly exploited by attackers to infect computers, and the problem could become worse if Oracle doesn't do more to secure the product and keep its installation base up to date, according to ...
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IDG News Service - Cybercriminals 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. ...
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Computerworld - Microsoft today confirmed that it will patch a vulnerability in Windows next week that has been exploited by an increasing number of attacks. Initially, experts wondered whether Microsoft would patch the XML Core Services ...
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Oracle has released an out-of-cycle security update to patch newly identified vulnerabilities in Java 7 that have been widely exploited, after the security community urged the company not to wait. The move comes hot on the heels of news ...
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