Free Beacon Article Redirects to ZeroAccess Rootkit, Fake AV

Update: Aaron Harison, president of the Center for American Freedom, told Threatpost this morning that the issue has been resolved and the site is no longer serving malware. Hackers have latched on to the NSA surveillance story—literally. A news story on the outing of whistleblower Edward Snowden...

Blackhole Exploit Kit attack on WampServer & Wordpress sites

Blackhole Exploit Kit attack on WampServer & Wordpress sites Kimberly from Stopmalvertising found Blackhole Exploit Kit on Website of most popular Webserver software site WAMPSERVER. Almost at the bottom of the webpage they notice a Javascript requesting a file from jquery.googlecode.com. The URL...

Week in Security: Scarily Tenacious Rootkits, Stuxnet's Secrets and Cisco Flaws

The news this week revolved around complex and troublesome threats, notably two rootkits, TDL4 and ZeroAccess. Stuxnet reared its head once again as did a new problem with Cisco’s popular videoconferencing software. Read on for the full week in review. In our most popular story of the week, we...