Cybercrooks Target U.S. Veterans with Fake Hiring Website

Researchers are warning that a fake website – purporting to help U.S. military veterans search for jobs — actually links to installers that download malware onto victims’ systems. The website spoofs a legitimate website for U.S. military veterans offered by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce...

Malware making bomb and death threats detected

Japanese police had arrested three people, accused them of making death threats via email and discussion forums. However, later Researchers at Symantec have determined that a piece of malware was making death and bomb threats online on behalf of its victims infected. Symantec confirmed that the...

Zero-Day Attacks Thrive for Months Before Disclosure

Zero-day vulnerabilities and exploits dominate headlines and most heated information security discussions. In truth, however, there are relatively few of these attacks hitting a small number of hosts, according to new research on the subject. The reason zero days eat up so much bandwidth is becau...

Attackers Can Use 'Self-Destruct' Feature to Kill Flame

The attackers behind Flame can easily clean up compromised computers, according to research by security firm Symantec who found that some attackers have been able to use command-and-control C&C servers to completely remove the malware from certain machines. According to a post on Symantec’s...

After A Lull, Botnets Back In Business

After a lull in the fourth quarter of 2010, spam appears to be back in full force, according to reports from both Websense, Commtouch and Symantec Corp.Spam volume was up 45% in the first half of January after diving in Q4 according to a Commtouch spam report. Reports show the recently dormant...