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DORKBOT, which became notorious for spreading via social media and instant messaging applications (e.g.Skype and mIRC etc.), is now found propagating in multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) apps like Quiet Internet Pager and Digsby. These apps enable users to communicate via various IM apps. Digsby supports AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, Jabber, and Facebook Chat accounts … Updated: February, 22. 3:00AM GMT. Another high profile website has been hacked to redirect visitors to malicious URLs, websites that seek to infect visitors for further scamming and cyber fraud. Last week it was Facebook, this time it is the website of the National Broadcasting Company (NBC). The major American television network’s site at NBC.com … Ever since the source code of the Zeus crimeware kit, also known as Zbot, was leaked onto the internet in May 2011, many new variants have appeared. These have typically added new features and improved on the old code. One particularly prevalent example is Citadel. At its core, Citadel works like the original Zbot. It comes as … Today, cybercriminals are quick to exploit vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader, Flash and Java to infect users’ computers. There is a simple reason for this popularity: exploits of vulnerabilities found in these products can infect computers regardless of which operating systems and browsers are used on the attacked machines. We assumed that the threats posed to … UBISOFT Patch Uplay vulnerability Games developer Ubisoft announced a security patch this week for their Uplay software after admitting that a technical vulnerability has been discovered with the browser plug-in feature. The vulnerability could allow a third party to exploit Uplay service to run arbitrary and potentially malicious applications. Uplay comes bundled with a number of Ubisoft titles, … OSX/Imuler is not the only Mac OS X threat that has resurfaced this year. OSX/Flashback has been making its rounds again. As you can remember, OSX/Flashback has appeared last year and disguised as Adobe Flash Player Installer. The previous variants connects to remote host to download its component files and installing backdoor that injects to … On Monday, I provided steps on how to avoid your Mac being compromised by the Flashback trojan. Today I will provide information on how to locate a Flashback infection. To better understand the steps below, it is better to also know a bit about Flashback. It’s an OS X malware family that modifies the content … Contributor: Masaki Suenaga We certainly are! It is American football season and the Super Bowl is right around the corner. Apparently, so are the malware authors. It would not be the first time they took advantage of this sporting event. Back in 2007, the Dolphins (hosts for Super Bowl XLI) had their website compromised by … What has been fixed? Apple has published Java updates for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and 10.7 Lion which bring the Mac version of Java in line with the current Oracle release. The updates improve compatibility and close several security holes found in previous versions. According to Apple, some of the vulnerabilities could allow … Article written by David Sanchez Lavado This post explains how to analyze the malicious code used in current Exploit Kits. There are many ways to analyze this type of code, and you can find tools that do most of the job automatically. However, as researchers who like to understand how things work, … |
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