Flame spy virus going to Suicide

Flame spy virus going to Suicide The creators of the world's most complicated espionage virus Flame have sent a 'suicide' command that removes it from some infected computers. U.S. computer security researchers said on Sunday that the Flame computer virus, which struck at least 600 specific...

Report: North Korea Accused Of DDoS Attack On South Korean Airport

North Korean agents have been linked to a malware attack on a South Korea’s Incheon International Airport, according to a report from the JoongAng Daily, a South Korean paper. The paper, citing the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, said that a 39 year-old South Korean man was arrested for...

News Roundup: What The Experts Are Saying About The Flame Worm

UPDATE: Are the winds of cyber war blowing, or is the newly discovered Flame worm just a tempest in a teapot? Just days after it was disclosed to the public, the Flame worm is fanning the flames of controversy within the security world. Threatpost takes a look at what people are saying. Calling...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Order Request Details Email Messages on May 16, 2012

Low Alert ID: 25938 First Published: 2012 May 16 14:32 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to German-language spam e-mail messages that claim to contain order request details for the recipient. The text in the e-mail message attempts to convince the...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Payment Proof Details Email Messages on May 11, 2012

Low Alert ID: 25907 First Published: 2012 May 14 14:48 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to Portuguese-language spam e-mail messages that claim to contain proof of payment for the recipient. The text in the e-mail message attempts to convince the...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Statement Notification Email Messages on May 18, 2012

Low Alert ID: 25900 First Published: 2012 May 10 16:25 GMT Last Updated: 2012 May 18 17:02 GMT Version: 3 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to Portuguese-language spam e-mail messages that claim to contain the recipient's account statement details for review. The te...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Contract Confirmation Email Messages on May 21, 2012

Medium Alert ID: 25854 First Published: 2012 May 8 21:07 GMT Last Updated: 2012 May 21 14:44 GMT Version: 2 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to Portuguese-language spam e-mail messages that claim to contain contract confirmation details for the recipient. The text ...

MS12-034: Description of the security update for DirectWrite in Windows: May 8, 2012

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Flashback malware Creater earning $10,000 per day from Google Ads

Flashback malware Creater earning $10,000 per day from Google Ads In a recent analysis of the business model behind the Flashback Trojan, Symantec security researchers reported that the main objective of the malware is revenue generation through an ad-clicking component. Security researchers at...

SevenDust/666, AutoStart 9805

1998 The late 1990s saw the advent of more malicious malware for the Mac. Discovered a few days before Halloween 1998, the Sevendust virus would remove all files from the infected hard drive, but leave applications and one file named “666” in the Extensions folder. AutoStart, one of the first Mac...

nVIR

1987 Also hitting Macs in the mid ’80s was nVIR, a virus that initially began to spread via floppy disk that eventually had its source code made widely available. The virus caused application crashes, printing errors on laser printers, slow system response time and even system crashes, according ...

Elk Cloner

1982 The first example of Apple malware can be traced back thirty years ago to a high school classroom in Mount Lebanon, Penn. It was there that Richard Skrenta, a student at Mt. Lebanon High School coded Elk Cloner, a virus that was passed around via the now archaic Apple II platform. The virus ...

Car Maker Nissan Admits To Virus Infection, Loss of Employee Accounts

Car maker Nissan became the latest high profile firm to acknowledge being hacked. The company issued a statement last week saying that it detected a virus infection on its network that resulted int he theft of employee login credentials from a company data store. The intrusion was detected on Apr...

HP ProCurve switches compact flash cards virus

Some of the devices contain virus on compact flash card...

[security bulletin] HPSBPV02754 SSRT100803 rev.1 - HP ProCurve 5400 zl Switch, Compact flash card virus

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 SUPPORT COMMUNICATION - SECURITY BULLETIN Document ID: c03249176 Version: 1 HPSBPV02754 SSRT100803 rev.1 - HP ProCurve 5400 zl Switch, Compact flash card virus NOTICE: The information in this Security Bulletin should be acted upon as soon as possible...

Cyber Attack on The Iranian Oil Ministry's Computer Network

Cyber Attack on The Iranian Oil Ministry's Computer Network The Iranian oil ministry's computer network came under attack from hackers and a computer virus, prompting the Islamic Republic to disconnect the country's main oil export terminal from the internet as a preventative measure, a...

Iran Acknowledges Hack Of Oil Ministry

The Iranian Oil Ministry has acknowledged that a virus outbreak has compromised servers and Web sites used by the Ministry, but denies that any non-public data was exposed. The notice, which was posted on the Web site for the Oil Ministry on Monday, quotes a Ministry of Petroleum spokesman as...

Specialized Trojan can stealing credit card details from hotel

Specialized Trojan can stealing credit card details from hotel The next time you check in to a hotel, a cybercriminal could be checking you out. A remote access computer Trojan RAT designed to steal credit card details from hotel point-of-sale PoS applications is being sold on the underground...

Cyberoam UTM 10.01.2 build 059 File Include Vulnerabilities

Exploit for multiple platform in category web applications Title: ====== Cyberoam UTM v10.01.2 build 059 - File Include Vulnerabilities Introduction: ============= Cyberoam Unified Threat Management appliances offer comprehensive security to organizations, ranging from large enterprises to small...

CVE-2012-0133

HP ProCurve 5400 zl switches with certain serial numbers include a compact flash card that contains an unspecified virus, which might allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on a PC by leveraging manual transfer of this card...