AV-killing worm spreads via Facebook chat and IM clients

AV-killing worm spreads via Facebook chat and IM clients


AV-killing worm spreads via Facebook chat and IM clients

Posted: 30 Aug 2012 08:28 AM PDT

A rather industrious piece of malware that - among other things - paves the way for other malware by disabling AV solutions and software update modules has been spotted spreading via several Instant M...

Kaspersky Lab publishes research about Wiper

Posted: 30 Aug 2012 07:46 AM PDT

In April 2012 a series of incidents were publicly reported about a destructive malware program, codenamed Wiper, which was attacking computer systems related to a number of oil facilities in Western A...

Cross-platform Wirenet Trojan targets Mac and Linux users

Posted: 30 Aug 2012 07:27 AM PDT

Since Windows users constitute the majority of computer users around the world, most malware is designed to target that particular OS and software made for it. Still, every now and then, malware that ...

Cybercriminals use throw-away domains to infiltrate enterprise networks

Posted: 30 Aug 2012 07:23 AM PDT

The first six months of 2012 saw continued increases of malicious infection activity and an intensified danger of email-based attacks as cybercriminals increasingly employed throw-away domains to infi...

Java 0-day exploit served from over 100 sites

Posted: 30 Aug 2012 06:23 AM PDT

The problem of the two unpatched Java zero-day vulnerabilities that are actively exploited in the wild by attackers looking to gain access to their targets' computers is getting more serious by the ho...

Secunia launches Corporate Software Inspector 6.0

Posted: 30 Aug 2012 05:52 AM PDT

Secunia announced the Secunia Corporate Software Inspector (CSI) 6.0 which provides customers with the ability to understand and evaluate their entire threat landscape, identify exactly where applicat...

Fake PayPal payment notifications carry malware

Posted: 30 Aug 2012 03:29 AM PDT

Millions of fake emails purportedly sent by PayPal have been hitting inboxes in the last few days, Webroot warns. The emails take the form of a notification about a received payment in the amount o...

AirMapper App for Android measures Wi-Fi coverage and performance

Posted: 30 Aug 2012 02:14 AM PDT

Fluke Networks announced the AirMapper App, the first application for Android that provides a visual heat map of actual Wi-Fi throughput performance on smartphone and tablet devices. While existi...

UK data breaches up 1000% in five years

Posted: 30 Aug 2012 02:09 AM PDT

Imation today released figures obtained through a request under the Freedom of Information Act which show that data breach numbers in the UK have increased by more than 1000% in the past five years. ...

Cloud Security Alliance Forms Big Data Working Group

Posted: 30 Aug 2012 02:05 AM PDT

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) and Fujitsu Laboratories of America announced launch of the Big Data Working Group which will take industry ownership in addressing the need for collaborative researc...

vOPS Server Standard 6 extends control into cloud deployments

Posted: 30 Aug 2012 02:02 AM PDT

VKernel announced vOPS Server Standard 6.0. This release extends control into cloud environments and virtual machine (VM) performance with unified multi-data source VM issue diagnosis, change impact m...

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