Mar 12, 2014 3 min read Mar 12, 2014 Security Alerts WordPress Sites Used for DDOS Attacks Bloggers Beware: Your favorite WordPress pingback feature can be used to carry out DDOS attacks on other WordPress websites.
Mar 11, 2014 2 min read Mar 11, 2014 Security Alerts Naked Videos of Your Facebook Friends – Translation: MALWARE A new Facebook scam advertises naked videos of you and your friends. Emsisoft Anti-Malware detects the malware involved as Trojan.FakeFlash.A.
Mar 3, 2014 4 min read Mar 3, 2014 Security Alerts Emsisoft Alert: Netflix Tech Support Scam Netflix users, beware: a new tech support scam uses the popular media streaming service to steal your identity for the low, low cost of $389.97.
Feb 27, 2014 2 min read Feb 27, 2014 Malware Lab RIP Mt.Gox Headlines read that the Mt.Gox Bitcoin exchange is dead. A leaked Crisis Strategy Draft reveals that the company lost 744,408 BTC to transaction malleability.
Feb 25, 2014 2 min read Feb 25, 2014 Security Alerts Caphaw Trojan Found in Youtube Ads The banking Trojan Caphaw is being distributed through Youtube ads. Emsisoft detects this malware as Trojan.Win32.Caphaw. The attack was discovered last Friday.
Feb 21, 2014 2 min read Feb 21, 2014 Security Alerts Adobe Flash Zero Day: Operation GreedyWonk Zero Day Vulnerability Alert. CVE-2014-0502, dubbed Operation GreedyWonk, affects the latest versions of Adobe Flash.
Feb 19, 2014 3 min read Feb 19, 2014 Security Alerts Zeus Found Crawling through Salesforce.com Infamous banking Trojan Zeus has been spotted on Salesforce.com. This discovery has just been made by SaaS security firm Adallom. An investigation is ongoing.
Feb 18, 2014 3 min read Feb 18, 2014 Security Alerts Firmware Vulnerabilities Discovered on Linksys and ASUS Routers New worm The Moon affects Linksys routers. Reports indicate an 8 month old ASUS router vulnerability is being exploited as well.
Feb 17, 2014 1 min read Feb 17, 2014 Security Alerts Emsisoft Alert: Kickstarter Data Breach Kickstarter.com has announced a data breach of user related information. Stolen data includes usernames, email addresses, encrypted passwords and more.
Feb 16, 2014 1 min read Feb 16, 2014 Security Alerts New Internet Explorer Zero Day Attack: Operation Snowman New zero day attack dubbed Operation Snowman is actively targeting fully patched versions of Internet Explorer 9 and 10.