Kaspersky finds Malware that resides in your RAM

Kaspersky finds Malware that resides in your RAM Kaspersky Lab researchers have discovered a drive-by download attack that evades hard-drive checkers by installing malware that lives in the computer's memory. The 'fileless' bot is more difficult for antivirus software to detect, and resides in...

Phishers Bait City Workers in Seattle With Phony Speeding Tickets

Hundreds of government employees in Seattle, Washington received fraudulent emails yesterday that appeared to be traffic violation notifications but were, in fact, vehicles for infection by malicious software. According to the Microsoft Malware Protection Center and the Seattle Police Department,...

Duqu computer virus Detected by Iran civil defense organization

Duqu computer virus Detected by Iran civil defense organization The virus is called W32.Duqu, or just Duqu create fear after the opening Pandora's Box of Stuxnet. The head of Iran's civil defense organization told the official IRNA news agency that computers at all main sites at risk were being...

Duqu Attackers Using Word Docs As Attack Vector

As the analysis of the Duqu malware continues to evolve, the picture that’s emerging is becoming more and more intriguing. The latest bits of evidence uncovered show that not only do the attackers create custom files for each individual attack, there is evidence indicating that they might have be...

Study: Operation Shady Rat Revealed

Global 2000 companies can be split into two categories, according to the author of a new white paper from McAfee PDF; those that know they’ve been compromised and those that don’t yet know. “The only organizations that are exempt from this threat,” writes the paper’s author, Dmitri Alperovitch,...

Researchers Discover New ACH Banker Trojan

Malware hunters at SecureWorks have intercepted a new banker Trojan being used by cyber-criminals to steal financial credentials from banks in the U.S. The Trojan, dubbed “Bugat,” targets Automated Clearing House ACH and wire transfer transactions by small- and mid-sized business in the U.S., muc...

iPhone Worm Was Simple, Yet Effective, Analysis Shows

The iKee worm that was infecting jailbroken iPhones last month was a simple, yet effective, piece of software that shows how easy it might be for an attacker to create a fairly large, functioning botnet comprising mobile devices, an analysis of the worm shows. Researchers at SRI International’s...

Inside the URLZone Trojan Network

Security researchers tracking the URL Zone malware/botnet have stumbled upon a new tactic being used by cyber-criminals to hide information on the money mules being used to transfer stolen funds from compromised online bank accounts. URLZone, which targets computer users in Western Europe, is a...