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Article | 12/02/2013 DaVinci surveillance malware distributed via zero-day Flash Player exploit, researchers say
Political activists from the Middle East were targeted in attacks that exploited a previously unknown Flash Player vulnerability to install a so-calle...
Article | 11/02/2013 Bit9 says attack likely targeted a narrow set of companies
Security vendor Bit9 promised to release limited details of a hack caused by a failure of the company to install the same security software on its own...
Article | 8/02/2013 Banking malware returns to basics to evade detection, Trusteer says
Financial malware authors are trying to evade new online banking security systems by returning to more traditional phishing-like credential stealing t...
Article | 7/02/2013 New Whitehole exploit toolkit emerges on the underground market
A new exploit kit called Whitehole has emerged on the underground market, providing cybercriminals with one more tool to infect computers with malware...
Article | 7/02/2013 Microsoft, Symantec take down Bamital click-fraud botnet
Microsoft and Symantec have dismantled a botnet that took over millions of computers for criminal activities such as identity theft and click fraud.
Article | 1/02/2013 Wall Street Journal says it too was hit by Chinese hackers
The Wall Street Journal said Thursday it had been targeted by hackers trying to monitor the newspaper's coverage of China, less than a day after a sim...
Article | 31/01/2013 New York Times computer network breached by Chinese hackers, paper says
Hackers from China breached the computer network of The New York Times and stole passwords that allowed them to gain access to computers and email acc...
Article | 28/01/2013 Browser-hijacking malware talks to attackers using SPF email validation protocol
A new Trojan program that displays rogue advertisements during browsing sessions uses a DNS-based email validation protocol called the Sender Policy F...
Article | 24/01/2013 Web server hackers install rogue Apache modules and SSH backdoors, researchers say
A group of hackers that are infecting Web servers with rogue Apache modules are also backdooring their Secure Shell (SSH) services in order to steal l...
Article | 23/01/2013 Android malware cases to hit 1 million in 2013
The number of distinct Android malware specimens detected will reach 1 million this year, predicts Trend Micro in its annual security roundup report, ...
Article | 23/01/2013 Three charged with distributing Gozi virus
Three people allegedly involved for years in cybercriminal activities in Eastern Europe have been charged in a U.S. court for creating and distributin...
Article | 23/01/2013 Reporters Without Borders website abused in malware campaign
The website for Reporters Without Borders was booby-trapped to deliver malicious software using the latest Java and Internet Explorer vulnerabilities,...
Article | 21/01/2013 Security researchers cripple Virut botnet
Many of the domain names used by a cybercriminal gang to control computers infected with the Virut malware were disabled last week in a coordinated ta...
Article | 19/01/2013 Google sees one password ring to rule them all
Google thinks it might have found an answer to the vexing problem of forgotten or weak passwords: "physical" passwords, which might come in the form o...
Article | 18/01/2013 Malware masquerades as patch for Java
Trend Micro has spotted a piece of malicious software that masquerades as the latest patch for Java, a typically opportunistic move by hackers.

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