Monday, May 6th, 2013
Trojans continue to dominate the threat landscape, according to Panda Security's latest quarterly report, released Monday.
The anti-virus maker's research arm, PandaLabs, found that between January and March of this year, more than 6.5 million new malware strains were built, with trojans comprising 75 percent of those. In total, trojans were ...
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Monday, April 29th, 2013
Security firm McAfee said it has spotted a vulnerability in the latest version of Adobe Reader that would allow someone to track a PDF document.
The flaw, which is being exploited in the wild, affects all versions of Reader, including the most recent, 11.0.2. While the hole does not enable remote ...
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Sunday, April 28th, 2013
VirusTotal is a greedy creature, one of its gluttonous wishes is to be able to understand and characterize all the races it encounters, it already understood the insurgent collective of Portable Executables, the greenish creatures known as Android APKs, the talkative PDF civilization, etc. as of today it also figures ...
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Saturday, April 20th, 2013
Security firm Lookout has detailed a clever new bit of Android Malware lurking in the Google Play store. The good news: unless you’re downloading questionable Russian clone apps, you’re probably not affected. The bad news: that hasn’t kept it from being downloaded a few million times.
The new malware, fittingly dubbed “BadNews”, has ...
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Monday, November 19th, 2012
Blackhole, says Christopher Boyd, senior threat researcher at GFI Software, “is the chameleon of internet threats. It simplifies the process of creating cybercrime campaigns and is easily adapted to take advantage of the buzz surrounding major news events and popular brands.” It is also easily adapted to target specific users ...
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