Zero Day
Ryan Naraine, Emil Protalinski and Dancho DanchevArchive: February, 2012
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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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Secunia adds 'automated patching' to software inspector tool
The free patching utility will automatically install software updates for Windows users.
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Flashback Mac OS X malware exploiting (old) Java security holes
If a Mac OS X user visits a web page, and their Java is not up to date, the malware infection will occur without their intervention.
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Android drive-by download attack via phishing SMS
A new security start-up focused on helping businesses deal with targeted attacks plans to showcase a drive-by download that plans malware silently on Android smart phones.
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XSS Flaw discovered in Skype's Shop, user accounts targeted
The independent security researcher Ucha Gobejishvili has detected a cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities affecting shop.skype.com and api.skype.com.
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Spamvertised 'Scan from a HP OfficeJet' emails lead to exploits and malware
Security researchers from Sophos have intercepted a currently spamvertised malware campaign, enticing end and corporate users into downloading and viewing a malicious HTML file.
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New Mac OS X trojan spotted in the wild
Security researchers from Intego, have intercepted several new variants of the Flashback Mac OS X trojan.
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Mozilla: Firefox can be hacked via booby-trapped images
For the second time in a week, Mozilla patches a “critical” vulnerability that could be remotely exploitable and can lead to arbitrary code execution.
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Cutwail botnet resurrects, launches massive malware campaigns using HTML attachments
Security researchers from M86Security, are contributing the increase in malicious malware campaigns using HTML attachments, to the resurrection of the Cutwail botnet, responsible for spamvertising...
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Report: malware pushed by affiliate networks remains the primary growth factor of the cybercrime ecosystem
According to FireEye’s recently released “FireEye Advanced Threat Report 2H 2011″ report, malware pushed by affiliate networks, remains among the key growth factors of the...
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Anonymous launches 'Operation Global Blackout', aims to DDoS the Root Internet servers
The Anonymous hacktivist movement is planning to launch a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) on the Internet’s root DNS servers, using a Reflective DNS Amplification DDoS tool.
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