'Kyle and Stan' Malvertising Network Targets Windows and Mac Users

A malvertising network that has been operating since at least May has been able to place malicious ads on a number of high-profile sites, including Amazon and YouTube and serves a unique piece of malware to each victim. The network, dubbed Kyle and Stan by the Cisco researchers who analyzed its...

Google Kenya domain defaced by TiGER-M@TE

On Monday morning, Google has been the victim of a cyber-attack. Defacement attack was launched by Bangladeshi hacker TiGER-M@TE, their Kenyan domain google.co.ke was defaced, instead the page splayed a black background€™ stamped in red across it. When a user visited the page the hacked screen...

Google Bangladesh website (Google.com.bd) Hacked by TiGER-M@TE

Google Bangladesh website Google.com.bd Hacked by TiGER-M@TE We just got an anonymous tip that Google's been 'hacked' – sure enough, visitors of the company's Bangladesh search site Google.com.bd see a defaced landing page rather than the usual search site. As far as I can tell, www.google.com.bd...

Microsoft to Fix IE 8 XSS Filter Security Problems

On the heels of a Black Hat EU presentation that exposed security problems with the cross-site scripting XSS filter in Internet Explorer 8, Microsoft plans to ship an update to the filter to fix what is hopefully the last remaining attack scenario. During the conference presentation, a pair of...