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| Asia-wide targeted campaign drops backdoor, RAT (14 June 2013) A new and widespread phishing campaign has been discovered targeting businesses and government institutions across Asia, Trend Micro reports. Telecoms, oil and gas companies, media... |
| Sourceforge accounts hosting malicious files (12 June 2013) Popular online source code repository Sourceforge has once again been misused by malware peddlers to host malicious files. A considerable number of malware downloads files from a... |
| Washington Free Beacon website redirects to malware (11 June 2013) A "big" story like that regarding NSA spying was bound to be used by cyber crooks as a lure. So far, no emails containing links to booby-trapped pages or malicious attachments have been... |
| Researchers find self-propagating Zeus variant (11 June 2013) The Zeus / Zbot Trojan has been around since 2007, and it and its variants continued to perform MitM attacks, log keystrokes and grab information entered in online forms. It is... |
| Microsoft Citadel takedown ultimately counterproductive (10 June 2013) Last week's disruption of nearly 1500 Citadel botnets believed to be responsible for over half a billion US dollars in financial fraud and affecting more than five million people in... |
| New Android Trojan is complex as Windows malware (07 June 2013) Mobile (and especially Android) malware is on the rise and according to researchers from Kaspersky Lab, its complexity is also increasing. Case in point: Backdoor.AndroidOS.Obad.a. This... |
| Fake Mt. Gox pages aim to infect Bitcoin users (06 June 2013) Mt. Gox is the the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world, and as such it and its users are being repeatedly targeted by attackers. Some two months ago, it battled a massive DDoS attack... |
| Microsoft and FBI disrupt global cybercrime ring (06 June 2013) Microsoft, the FBI, Agari, financial services industry leaders FS-ISAC, NACHA, and other industry partners, managed to break up a massive cybercrime ring which was stealing people’s... |
| Cyberespionage campaign targeting government-affiliated organizations (05 June 2013) Kaspersky Lab experts published a new research report about NetTraveler, which is a family of malicious programs used by APT actors to successfully compromise more than 350 high-profile... |
| The rise of the Koobface social networking worm (04 June 2013) A new McAfee Labs report shows a significant spike in instances of the Koobface social networking worm and a dramatic increase in spam. McAfee Labs also saw continued increases in the... |
Spotlight
Information security executives need to be strategic thinkers
Posted on 17 June 2013. | George Baker, the Director of Information Security at Exostar, talks about the challenges in working in a dynamic threat landscape, offers tips for aspiring infosec leaders, and more.
Large orgs in denial about own security breaches?
Posted on 14 June 2013. | Over two thirds (66%) of large organizations said they either had not experienced a security incident in the last 12-18 months or were unsure if they had.
Vulnerability scanning with PureCloud
Posted on 12 June 2013. | nCircle PureCloud is a cloud-based network security scanning product built upon the companies' vulnerability and risk management system IP360.
To hack back or not to hack back?
Posted on 12 June 2013. | If you think of cyberspace as a new resource for you and your organization, it makes sense to protect your part of it as best you can. But is it a good idea?
Reactions from the security community to the NSA spying scandal
Posted on 11 June 2013. | Read on for comments on this scandal that Help Net Security received from a variety of security professionals and analysts.
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