Zero Day
Ryan Naraine, Emil Protalinski and Dancho DanchevArchive: December, 2011
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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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Amnesty International UK compromised, serving exploits and malware
Researchers from Barracuda Labs have detected a drive-by malware campaign currently embedded at the web sites of Amnesty International UK.
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Cybercriminals hijack Facebook accounts through bogus browser extensions
Researchers from WebSense are warning on a newly circulating fraudulent scheme relying on bogus browser extensions for hijacking Facebook accounts.
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Localized ransomware variants impersonate law enforcement agencies
Security researchers from Microsoft, have intercepted multiple localized ransomware variants, impersonating law enforcement agencies across the world.
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Cybercriminals exploiting the death of Kim Jong-Il
Security researchers from TrendMicro, have intercepted a currently circulating malware campaign, using the death of Kim Jong-Il as a social engineering theme.
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Web malware exploitation kits updated with new Java exploit
Cybercriminals are quick to capitalize on the announcement of a newly discovered vulnerability — CVE-2011-3544 — in Java.
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Yahoo! Mail introduces two factor authentication
In an attempt to offer layered security to its millions of Web users, Yahoo Inc. recently announced the availability of two factor authentication for Yahoo! Mail users.
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FTC issues refunds to scareware victims
The US Federal Trade Commission announced that it plans to issue refunds to scareware victims, following a settlement with Innovative Marketing.
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New study claims that Chrome is the most secure browser
Which is the most secure browser around? According to a newly released study by Accuvant, that’s Google’s Chrome.
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Adobe PDF Reader zero-day under attack
According to a warning from Adobe, the attacks have been observed in the wild against Windows users running Adobe Reader version 9.4.6. An emergency fix is coming next week.
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