Tag Archives : Malware

The Mozilla developers are rushing to fix a new bug in Firefox browser, which is being used by criminals to install malicious software on victims’ computers. The flaw was discovered last Tuesday by the security company Norman, who discovered the error after reviewing secretly installed malicious code on the website of Nobel Peace Prize “If [...]

The recent worm attack Stuxnet is generating much discussion and speculation about the intent, purpose, origin, and especially the identities of the attackers and their targets. The virus, highly sophisticated, contaminated businesses worldwide, but seems to have particularly affected Iran. Therefore, it is suspected that it was created with the intention [...]

The security filter in Internet Explorer 8 (IE8), the SmartScreen Filter, used to protect users from dubious sites, has blocked a billion downloads of malware, according to an announcement from Microsoft. As with similar tools, found, for example, in Mozilla Firefox, the first action SmartScreen is to verify that each site is visited on a white list [...]

The research laboratory of AVG Technologies identified a botnet composed of more than 1.2 million computers. Controlled by criminals, the machines were infected in an attack of Eleonore Explore Toolkit – software that enables contamination control and desktops and notebooks. During the past two months, the team’s Virus Lab AVG observed [...]

A zero-day hole disseminated on the Internet by a Google researcher has begun to be explored. The researcher decided to publish the flaw after the Sun (a company owned by Oracle and is responsible for Java) said it did not consider the problem serious enough to throw out an update cycle of three months that the firm follows. The specialist who discovered [...]

The company Sophos, which specializes in security products for Internet users, today launched an alert to players of “Farm Town“, a popular online game made available on social network Facebook. According to Graham Cluley, a security expert at Sophos, game users are getting fake security warnings in an attempt to trick the unwary to install [...]

2010 may be the year of Tiger according to the Chinese. However, a new report suggests that the 2010 year would be the year of malware, if we are to trust a report by McAfee. They believe that the most common target is Microsoft because they own the most dominating OS. Also, the own the most widely used browser, and hence most Microsoft product users [...]

In a recent revelation it has come to notice that, numerous Facebook users have gotten their computers infected with a worm, since they clicked on an image of a woman in provocative clothing. The users were redirected to a pornography website, after clicking on the image of woman. The worm that infects such systems take upon itself to put up a Wall [...]

In a recent statement issued by Microsoft over the issue of malware infecting the Windows operating systems, the company has blamed the malware problem squarely on software piracy. Microsoft states that, the users who use the cracked or counterfeit versions of its Windows operating platform are more likely to be infected with malware. The prime reason [...]

Kaspersky, an anti-virus and computer-security firm based in Moscow, created a tool called Krab Krawler, a program that searches through tweets. According to the company, ‘a quarter of Twitter messages contain a URL and half of those are generated by spammers and other Internet lowlifes.’ It seems that Twitter has been used by cybercriminals as [...]