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Mac botnet generated $10,000 a day for Flashback gang
Flashback was robbing Google of advertising dollars by redirecting clicks from infected Mac OS X machines and stealing the ad revenue.
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Ryan Naraine
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Ryan Naraine
Prior to joining Kaspersky Lab, Ryan was Editor-at-Large/Security at eWEEK, leading the magazine's and Web site's coverage of Internet and computer security issues and managing the popular SecurityWatch blog, covering the daily threats, vulnerabilities and IT security technologies. He also covered IT security, hacker attacks and secure content management topics for Jupiter Media's internetnetnews.com.
Ryan can be reached at naraine SHIFT 2 gmail.com. For daily updates on Ryan's activities, follow him on Twitter.
Dancho Danchev
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Dancho Danchev
Emil Protalinski
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Emil Protalinski
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Q&A of the Week: 'The current state of the cybercrime ecosystem' featuring Mikko Hypponen
In this week’s Q&A, I chat with Mikko Hypponen, the Chief Research Officer of F-Secure on the current state of the cybercrime ecosystem.
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Comcast phishing site contains valid TRUSTe seal
Security researchers from Sophos are reporting on an intercepted Comcast-themed phishing email, which contains a valid TRUSTe seal.
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New SpyEye plugin takes control of crimeware victims' webcam and microphone
Security researchers from Kaspersky have profiled a new SpyEye plugin known as flashcamcontrol.dll which takes control of the victim’s webcam and microphone.
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Researchers intercept Tatanga malware bypassing SMS based transaction authorization
Security researchers from Trusteer have intercepted a Tatanga malware variant capable of bypassing SMS based transaction authentication protection.
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Anonymous hacks Bureau of Justice, leaks 1.7GB of data
Anonymous has apparently hacked the United States Bureau of Justice Statistics and posted 1.7GB of data belonging to the agency on The Pirate Bay. This is a Monday Mail Mayhem release.
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Facebook account cancellation is malware, not Adobe Flash
If you’re asked to confirm or deny a Facebook account cancellation request, ignore it. Facebook will never ask you this, and chances are someone is looking to install malware on your computer.
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Malware charges users for free Android apps on Google Play
Android users are being tricked into paying for free apps. The malware is a new variant of the Android.Opfake family that pushes fake versions of popular Android apps to unsuspecting consumers.
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The Pirate Bay returns, Anonymous hater takes credit for DDoS
The Pirate Bay is back online. An Anonymous traitor who goes by the name AnonNyre has claimed responsibility for the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack that kept the site offline for days.
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Wikileaks has been under DDoS attack for the last three days
The Pirate Bay is down. Wikileaks is down. Visa was down. Are all these Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks a coincidence? Right now it’s not clear, but something is definitely...
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Apple releases QuickTime 7.7.2 for Windows, fixes 17 flaws
Apple QuickTime version 7.7.2 is out, fixing 17 security vulnerabilities in the multimedia framework. This is a security update, meaning no new features have been added. You should still update.
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