Feb 12, 2014 4 min read Feb 12, 2014 Security Alerts DDoS Attacks Affect Cloudflare and Bitcoin Exchange In the aftermath of the Mt.Gox withdrawal freeze, reports of DDoS attacks against other Bitcoin exchange sites and content delivery network Cloudflare emerge.
Feb 12, 2014 5 min read Feb 12, 2014 Security Alerts MtGox Freezes All Bitcoin Withdrawals MtGox's move to freeze all withdrawals is sending ripples throughout the Bitcoin trading community. MtGox cites Bitcoin transaction malleability as the cause.
Feb 8, 2014 8 min read Feb 8, 2014 Malware Lab What’s with all the Point of Sale Data Breaches? Target, Neimann Marcus, Michaels, White Lodging: All victims of point of sale attacks. Emsisoft explores the recent trend in POS data breaching.
Feb 3, 2014 5 min read Feb 3, 2014 Ransomware Malware Analysis: Ransomware “Linkup” Blocks DNS and Mines Bitcoins Emsisoft's Malware Analysis team has been closely following a new ransomware Trojan variant identified as Trojan-Ransom.Win32.Linkup.
Jan 30, 2014 3 min read Jan 30, 2014 Security Alerts Emsisoft Malware Warning: FileZilla FTP Copycat StealZilla Makers of FTP application FileZilla have announced that tainted versions of their program are circulating the web. "StealZilla" steals FTP log-in credentials.
Jan 29, 2014 3 min read Jan 29, 2014 Malware Lab Emsisoft Explains the Syrian Electronic Army In recent weeks, tech news feeds have had a lot to say about the Syrian Electronic Army. Just last week this mysterious entity hacked CNN, and a few days before that they broke into Microsoft Office’s blog. If you’ve read the headlines but haven’t had the time to delve into the details, you might be […]
Jan 28, 2014 4 min read Jan 28, 2014 Security Alerts Emsisoft Malware Spotlight: Blackbeard and Pigeon Blackbeard and Pigeon are a downloader/clickbot Trojan that began infecting PCs around January 1st, 2014. Learn how to detect and remove this new malware.
Jan 23, 2014 2 min read Jan 23, 2014 Security Alerts Emsisoft Security Warning: 16 Million Email Accounts hacked by botnet German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) has announced a data breach affecting 16 million German Internet users. Find out if you're one of them.
Jan 21, 2014 4 min read Jan 21, 2014 Malware Lab Emsisoft Explores the Worst Passwords of the year 2013 This Monday, password management app developer SplashData released a list of the 25 Worst Passwords of 2013. The complete list, which includes some of the weakest passwords known to humanity, is as follows...
Jan 20, 2014 4 min read Jan 20, 2014 Security Alerts The SEPA Switch and Internet Fraud IBAN is a massive step for SEPA and the euro. But, it is also a massive opportunity for Internet Fraud.
