Test Your Anti-Malware Solution

Sunday, October 12th, 2014

The wicar.org website was designed to test the correct operation your anti-virus / anti-malware software. The following table contains static HTML pages with known malicious content, based on the Metasploit Framework. The exploits contain a non-malicious payload which under Windows will execute 'calc.exe', the in-built calculator (if your browser is ...

Malware Based Credit Card Breach at Kmart

Friday, October 10th, 2014

Sears Holding Co. late Friday said it recently discovered that point-of-sale registers at its Kmart stores were compromised by malicious software that stole customer credit and debit card information. The company says it has removed the malware from store registers and contained the breach, but that the investigation is ongoing. “Yesterday ...

Dairy Queen stores hit by ‘Backoff’ malware, payment card data stolen

Friday, October 10th, 2014

Dairy Queen said Thursday the "Backoff" point-of-sale malware infected systems at 395 of its stores, stealing payment card data. The company, which has 4,500 independently owned franchises in the U.S., said in a statement it believes the "malware has been contained." Most of the stores, including one Orange Julius location, were ...

Cyber crime: First online murder will happen by end of year, warns US firm

Monday, October 6th, 2014

Governments are ill-prepared to combat the looming threat of "online murder" as cyber criminals exploit internet technology to target victims, the European policing agency warned. In its most alarming assessment of the physical danger posed by online crime, Europol said it expected a rise in "injury and possible deaths" caused ...

Hackers Are Using Reddit to Connect 17,000 Macs to a Botnet

Saturday, October 4th, 2014

Bad news for Mac users: You're at risk for an insidious malware that will connect your computer to a botnet. Hackers have developed a backdoor entry called "Mac.BackDoor.iWorm" that gains access to Macs and uses Reddit to connect the hacked computer with a command server. Once the computer is infected, the ...