Friday, November 29th, 2013
Kaspersky Lab has recorded several thousand attempts to infect computers used for online banking with a malicious programme that its creators claim can attack “any bank in any country”.
The Neverquest Trojan banker supports just about every possible trick used to bypass online banking security systems: web injection, remote system access, ...
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Friday, November 29th, 2013
We recently came across some malware of the SOGOMOT and MIRYAGO families that update themselves in an unusual way: they download JPEG files that contain encrypted configuration files/binaries. Not only that, we believe that this activity has been ongoing since at least the middle of 2010. A notable detail of the malware ...
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Thursday, November 28th, 2013
Trend Micro came across samples of an exploit targeting the recently announced zero-day vulnerability affecting Windows XP and Server 2003. This is an elevation of privilege vulnerability, which may allow a threat actor to gain certain privileges that enable him to do varied activities, including deleting or viewing data, installing programs, or ...
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Wednesday, November 13th, 2013
Microsoft is announcing a policy change to the Microsoft Root Certificate Program. The new policy will no longer allow root certificate authorities to issue X.509 certificates using the SHA-1 hashing algorithm for the purposes of SSL and code signing after January 1, 2016. Using the SHA-1 hashing algorithm in digital ...
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Friday, October 25th, 2013
There's a big threat wiling around on the Internet right now: A particularly nasty piece of ransomware called Cryptolocker. Many, many organizations are being infected with this malware, but fortunately, there are surefire ways to avoid it and also ways to mitigate the damage without letting the lowlifes win.
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