Tuesday, February 18th, 2014
A new variant of the nefarious Zeus banking trojan – dubbed ZeusVM – is concealed in JPG image files, according to the collaborative findings of Jerome Segura, senior security researcher with Malwarebytes, and French security researcher Xylitol.
The act is known as steganography – concealing messages or images in other messages or images.
In ...
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Monday, February 17th, 2014
Evernote users are being actively targeted with an email spam campaign that tries to trick them into following a malicious link.
Sent from
[email protected] and titled "Image has been sent", the email pretends to be a notification from Evernote that alerts the user to an image he or she needs to check out, ...
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Monday, February 17th, 2014
Technical details about a vulnerability in Linksys routers that's being exploited by a new worm have been released Sunday along with a proof-of-concept exploit and a larger than earlier expected list of potentially vulnerable device models.
Last week, security researchers from the SANS Institute's Internet Storm Center identified a self-replicating malware ...
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Thursday, February 13th, 2014
A useful cyber-defensive utility can be turned into a powerful tool for cyber-attackers in the form of full access to millions of users' computers, according to research from Kaspersky Lab regarding an element of Absolute Software’s anti-theft software.
The focus of the Kaspersky research was the Absolute Computrace agent that resides ...
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Thursday, February 13th, 2014
FireEye Labs has identified a new Internet Explorer (IE) zero-day exploit hosted on a breached website based in the U.S. It’s a brand new zero-day that targets IE 10 users visiting the compromised website–a classic drive-by download attack. Upon successful exploitation, this zero-day attack will download a XOR encoded payload ...
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