Latest Tax Scams Include Phishing Lures, Malware

Microsoft warned Monday this year’s crop of tax scams are using social engineering attacks based on fear to spread Zdowbot and Omaneat banking Trojans and collect personal info via spoofed tax sites linked to from phishing campaigns. The warning comes with less than a month before the April 18 ta...

CoreBot Credential-Stealing Malware

A new piece of data-stealing malware has a real thirst for credentials—and the potential for worse trouble down the line. IBM today published a report on CoreBot, generic information-stealing malware designed with enough flexibility to soon ramp up its capabilities to exfiltrate data in real time...

Apple Issues Update to Prevent Flashback Malware from Infecting Mac OS X Machines

Less than a day after reports began surfacing that the Flashback trojan was hitting Mac OS X machines, Apple today released a fix to stop the latest variant of the password-stealing malware. The update closes numerous vulnerabilities in Java 1.6.029, including a serious hole that allowed an...

Microsoft: Emergency IE Patch Coming

Microsoft has started dropping broad hints that an emergency patch for Internet Explorer will be released very soon to counter targeted attacks and the publication of exploit code for a “browse and you’re owned” vulnerability in its flagship Web browser. UPDATE: Here is the official confirmation...