Stats confirm that trojans spreading, malware being built at record rates

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 ...

Flame code linked to Stuxnet virus, experts say

Thursday, June 14th, 2012

The Flame cyber-attack that targeted computers across the Middle East has been linked to the Stuxnet worm, which is believed to have been orchestrated by the US and Israel to attack Iranian nuclear centres. Speaking at the Reuters Global Media and Technology Summit on 11 June, Eugene Kaspersky, chief executive of ...

Chrome virus scanner coming

Sunday, January 8th, 2012

Google has released a beta version of its Chrome 17 browser that scans for malicious downloads, which may help tackle scareware threats. The browser will issue a warning to discard a file when a user attempts to download a known bad file or if the file comes from a ...

Researchers uncover first active BIOS rootkit attack

Wednesday, September 14th, 2011

Researchers have discovered what is believed to be the first in-the-wild rootkit that targets BIOS, the built-in software responsible for booting up a computer and managing communication between the machine and its attached devices. The discovery of Mebromi is notable not because any widespread infections are anticipated – the complexity of ...

Hackers flip characters to disguise malware

Thursday, September 8th, 2011

Hackers are using a new trick to cloak malicious files by disguising their Windows file extensions to make them appear safe to download, a Czech security company warned today. The exploit, dubbed "Unitrix" by Avast Software, abuses Unicode for right-to-left languages -- such as Arabic or Hebrew -- to mask Windows ...