Google Aurora Attack Carried Out By "Amateurs"?

Symantec reckons the Flashback Trojan has been making something in the order of $10,000 for its perpetrators. In a blog post, the security company noted that it has been reverse engineering components of OSX.Flashback.K to...

A New analysis report claims that vulnerability in RSA Secure ID that was discovered earlier this year and that brought RSA to its knees was also able to victimise a number of top US and other corporations around the globe. 760...

In an exclusive interview, Greg Hoglund, CEO of US security contractor HBGary, the company that hit the headlines when 'hacktivist' collective Anonymous outed confidential emails earlier this year, speaks to thinq_ about terror...

Security specialist McAfee has released its latest Threats Report, and makes the claim that the success of Google's Android platform is gathering some unwelcome attention from ne'er-do-wells.According to figures released in the...

The growing trend for malware authors to target increasingly powerful smartphones continues with the news that anti-virus experts have discovered a new Trojan targeting Android devices in the wild.The Trojan, named 'ADRD' by...

Malware, spam and phishing attacks carried out via Facebook and other social networking platforms doubled in 2010, according to a report released today by security company Sophos. From iPhones to scareware, we look at the top...

Security researchers have spotted a botnet-like Trojan virus targeted towards Google's Android operating system in China. According to security firm Lookout Security, the virus, dubbed as 'Geinimi', is capable of infecting a...

According to a recent research conducted by Google, a new cyber-attack, somewhat similar to the one that targeted the search giant, has been reported. It was implemented with the intention of hacking into the computers of critics...

The infamous ZeuS botnet has suffered a significant drop in its servers after an internet service provider in Kazakhstan, Troyak.org, was disconnected from the internet. Cisco security team confirmed that the world's largest...

Spanish authorities have arrested three men alleged to be behind the malignant Mariposa botnet, which had spread to almost 13 million PCs in less than a year. The suspects were cornered when they tried to reactivate the...

The last few weeks have seen a resurgence in the number of attacks based on the Asprox malware and coming from East European countries, something that was highlighted by GSS back in May 2008. Asprox uses an SQL-inhection attack...

Cloudmark Inc announced new research into mobile messaging abuse trends in Asia, North America and Europe that point to a precipitous rise in mobile spam, phishing and virus attacks in 2008. Cloudmark solutions currently protect...

I was amused to read that the SANS Institute has uncovered evidence that bots are being used to harness the power of thousands of PCs, which are then used to repeatedly click on adwords on Google.According to the IT security...

The Register reports that The SANS Institute has uncovered evidence that networks of compromised PCs are being used to click on banner ads, generating revenue for unscrupulous publishers.Pay-per-click schemes such as Google...