Tag: malware
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Cyber Criminals Using #Malware That Act as Sleeper Cells
from bgr.in: As enterprises are increasingly adopting technologies like cloud and mobility, they are also facing more security challenges with cyber criminals using malware that are dormant while entering a secure network and then becoming active, networking solutions giant Cisco said. With companies increasingly adopting concepts like BYOD (bring your own device) and cloud services,…
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Yahoo Malvertising Attack Linked to Larger Malware Scheme
from computerworld.com: A deeper look by Cisco Systems into the cyberattack that infected Yahoo users with malware appears to show a link between the attack and a suspicious affiliate traffic-pushing scheme with roots in Ukraine. Yahoo said on Sunday that European users were served malicious advertisements, or “malvertisements,” between Dec. 31 and last Saturday. If…
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FBI Admits It Controlled Tor Servers Behind Mass Malware Attack
from wired.com: It wasn’t ever seriously in doubt, but the FBI yesterday acknowledged that it secretly took control of Freedom Hosting last July, days before the servers of the largest provider of ultra-anonymous hosting were found to be serving custom malware designed to identify visitors. Freedom Hosting’s operator, Eric Eoin Marques, had rented the servers…
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U.S. spy agencies mounted 231 offensive cyber-operations in 2011
from washingtonpost.com: U.S. intelligence services carried out 231 offensive cyber-operations in 2011, the leading edge of a clandestine campaign that embraces the Internet as a theater of spying, sabotage and war, according to top-secret documents obtained by The Washington Post. That disclosure, in a classified intelligence budget provided by NSA leaker Edward Snowden, provides new…
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Malware That Drains Your Bank Account Thriving on Facebook
from NYTimes.com: In case you needed further evidence that the White Hats are losing the war on cybercrime, a six-year-old so-called Trojan horse program that drains bank accounts is alive and well on Facebook. Zeus is a particularly nasty Trojan horse that has infected millions of computers, most of them in the United States. Once…
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Apple, Facebook, Twitter Hacks Said To Hail From Eastern Europe
While many security experts have been pointing the blame at China for the recent wave of cyberattacks on U.S. companies and newspapers, Bloomberg reports that some of the malware attacks actually may be coming from Eastern Europe.
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#DataDump: Dossiers, Dismissed and More
Despite i9/11 Threat, Lawmakers Punt Cyber Security Bill // NSA Chief Tells Hackers His Agency Doesn’t Create Dossiers on All Americans // Feds: We Can Freeze Megaupload Assets Even if Case Dismissed // All systems go for Curiosity rover landing Monday morning // #Audio #Satire: New Hubble Peephole Can See Into Women’s Showers
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Malware Arrives, Nuked on App Store For First Time
from tomsguide.com: Kaspersky has discovered the first-ever malicious app on Apple’s App Store. Kaspersky Lab is calling this a first-ever for Apple: an app offered on the App Store containing malware. The security firm confirmed its existence on Thursday, reporting that the malicious app was also available to download from Google Play. The app has…
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#DataDump: God Particle, Predictive Programming and more
CERN Physicists Claim Evidence of Higgs-Boson* Video: What is a Higgs Boson? – Physicist Michio Kaku Responds* Theorist Peter Higgs lives to see his boson* Video: Alan Alda’s ‘#Flame Challenge’ Illuminates Importance of Communicating #Science* Life Imitating Art: Robot Avatar Body Controlled By Thought* Video: Proof That ‘Predictive Programming’ Works* DNSChanger Could Leave Thousands Stranded…
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Cyber Espionage: New Worm Attacks AutoCad, Steals Blueprints
Stuxnet showed us the potential for great damage with an attack on infrastructure. Now, a new piece of malware is taking the attack a step further: it’s stealing the plans for your infrastructure, maybe even before it’s built.
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#DataDump: Infiltration, Asylum, Aircraft and More
Facebook To Buy Israeli Biometrics Startup Face.com For $100 Million // Face.com App Allowed Facebook, Twitter Account Hijacking // Researcher: CIA, NSA may have infiltrated Microsoft to write malware // NSA: It Would Violate Your Privacy to Say If We Spied on You // Apple fined more than $2m over 4G claim // Assange Seeks…
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#DataDump: #HackedIn, Track Default, Radio and More
Hacker Claims He Stole 4.5M LinkedIn Password Hashes // IE10′s ‘Do-Not-Track’ Default Dies Quick Death // IPv6 switch to prevent the net from running out of addresses // FBI Illegally Pirated Kim Dotcom’s Data Out of New Zealand, File-Sharing King Charges // Video: ACLU Phone App Lets You Shoot the Cops*
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Obama Lights the ‘Flame’: From ‘Virtual War’ To Military Conflict
#Video: Obama Ordered Cyber Attacks Against Iran from brasschecktv.com: Over a year ago the Pentagon announced that computer sabotage coming from another country can constitute an act of war and could lead to military conflict. Now it has been ‘leaked’ that Obama ordered and even escalated cyber attacks against Iran. So what comes next? Video:…
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#DataDump: #Flame, Blame, Hall of Fame and more
Massive Spy Malware ‘Flame’ Infiltrating Iranian Computers // SKorea teens flock online to snitch on pro-North posts // 33 Inducted Into The Internet Hall of Fame // SpaceX’s mission ends with a splashdown in the Pacific // NASA Shuttle Bus Delayed