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The Amount of Cyber-Criminal Activity Related to The Zeus Family Has Increased
May 28, 2013The 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 ...
Tags: anti-virus, banking, BitDefender, Bogdan Botezatu, Citadel, CNME
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Chinese Mobile Phone Security Data: 360 Takes over 70% of Market Share
Mar 7, 2013Chinese Authoritative third-party mobile Internet data company iResearch released the mobile smart end-user behavior (MUT) 2013 data, whose mobile safety segment attracted much more attention. The data showed that in the past six months, ...
Tags: mobile phone security, 360, mobile app
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Spammers Have Built a Botnet That Sends SMS Spam Through Infected Android Phones
Dec 28, 2012In 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 for ...
Tags: botnet, SMS spam, Android phones, victims
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Cyber Crime Has Continued to Become More Professional in 2012
Dec 28, 2012Cyber 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 ...
Tags: Protection, Cyber Crime, Products
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Security Researchers Collaborated to Take Down Grum
Dec 26, 2012Security researchers have collaborated to take down Grum, the world's third-largest botnet of hijacked computers. The Grum botnet is believed to have been responsible for around 18% of global spam, or 18 billion spam messages a day. ...
Tags: Security Researchers, Grum, hijacked computers, global spam, spam messages
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Google on Thursday Dismissed The Possibility That a New Wave of Pharmacy
Dec 26, 2012IDG News Service - Google on Thursday dismissed the possibility that a new wave of pharmacy, penny stock and e-card spam emails are being sent by Android spam botnets. "Our analysis suggests that spammers are using infected computers and ...
Tags: Google, pharmacy, penny stock, spam email, computers
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Spammers Have Built a Botnet That Sends SMS Spam Through Infected Android Phones
Dec 20, 2012In 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
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Cybercriminals No Longer Control One of The World's Largest Spam Botnets,Grum
Dec 20, 2012Cybercriminals 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
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Google's Mobile OS,Android,Has Been Targeted Again by Malicious Malware
Dec 19, 2012Google's mobile operating system(OS),Android,has been targeted again by malicious malware,which causes the device to send out spam SMS messages. The infected malware,known as SpamSoldier,has been hiding in free versions of popular Android ...
Tags: Android, Malware, Attack, Google Play Store
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An Android-Based Botnet May Instead a Sign That Criminals Are Exploiting Bugs in Yahoo App
Dec 18, 2012Accusations 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
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Andrey N.Sabelnikov Had a Surprise Waiting for Him
Dec 17, 2012When 32-year-old Russian programmer Andrey N.Sabelnikov visited the U.S.for the first time in January,he had a surprise waiting for him. The surprise was an amended civil lawsuit soon to be filed against him by Microsoft,which alleged he ...
Tags: Russian Coder, Microsoft, Botnet, U.S.District Court
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A Suspected Hacking Attack Has Hit a UN Agency Meeting in Dubai
Dec 7, 2012A suspected hacking attack has hit a UN agency meeting in Dubai at which delegates are discussing new telecommunications controls that could alter the way the internet is governed. Among other groups,European MPs have voiced concerns that ...
Tags: Hackers, internet governance, ITU, WCIT organisers
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Cyber Criminals Targeted Users of Skype,Facebook&Windows Using Multiple Blackhole Exploits
Nov 19, 2012Cyber criminals targeted users of Skype,Facebook and Windows using multiple Blackhole exploits in October,according to the latest threat report from security firm GFI Software. Researchers uncovered a large number of Blackhole exploits ...
Tags: Cyber criminals, Facebook, Windows users, chameleon of internet threats
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A U.S.District Judge Has Approved a Request
Nov 13, 2012A U.S.district judge has approved a request for class action in a lawsuit against pizza maker Papa John's International for allegedly sending hundreds of thousands of text spam messages. Seattle law firm Heyrich Kalish ...
Tags: Papa John, lawsuit, text spam messages
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Dropbox's Ongoing Investigation Into a Possible Security Breach Not Produced Any Evidence
Jul 20, 2012Dropbox's ongoing investigation into a possible security breach has not produced any evidence that its systems have been infiltrated,according to an update Friday to the company's user forum. "As of today,we've found no intrusions into ...
Tags: Dropbox, spam, The cloud storage company, security breach