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More than half of IT leaders (62 percent) fear that malware is growing more sophisticated faster than they can upgrade their analysis capabilities.
Additionally, 58 percent cited the growing number of threats as their biggest worry for 2012, according to Norman... 
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Malware und Viren – was ist eigentlich der Unterschied?
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If your antivirus truly did nothing but fight viruses, you'd be in big trouble. Fortunately, "antivirus" is a catch-all term for software that protects against all kinds of malicious software.
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The newest strain of the notorious Zeus malware family is capable of defeating common methods of user authentication employed by financial institutio...
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We bought a stash of USB keys at a major transit authority's Lost Property auction, and took a look at the sort of information people leave on the train.
We didn't find any OS X malware. But nine of the keys appeared to belong to Macintosh owners (or at least had been used extensively on Macs); seven of these were infected.
GM: Read more, very interesting...
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In September there was a significant rise in the number of generic polymorphic malware.
According to the Symantec Intelligence Report, at the end of July 23.7 per cent of all malicious email-borne malware was characterised as aggressive strains of generic polymorphic malware. However, in September this rocketed to 72 per cent as cyber criminals adopted a variety of more sophisticated techniques, such as sending emails purporting to be from a smart printer/scanner and forwarded by a colleague.
Paul Wood, senior intelligence analyst at Symantec.cloud, said: “The most recent attacks in the report are email-based, in the form of attachments disguised with some interesting social engineering.
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Analysis: Were these a human virus, the CDC would be subjecting it to observation and protocols, while someone was racing to invent vaccinations for the world to use.
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This is the third and final article in this series on mobile malware.
HOW (CAN I PROTECT MYSELF)? Permissions request list from Trojan:Android/AdSMS In my previous articles, I’ve covered what kind of mobile threats have emerged in the first half of 2011 and why these malicious programs may cause concern for smartphone users. Now, let’s assume you’re a cautious smartphone user who wants to make sure you don’t get hit by a malware infection on your smartphone. What can you do?
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From late 2010 to the first few months of 2011, there’s been a fair bit of buzz in the tech media about how mobile malware may be the big IT security issue for 2011. (To be fair, I also said something similar in a previous post.)
Even though PC threats are still hugely more prevalent, mobile malware tends to get more press because they’re like the up-and-coming starlets of tech threats – they’re fresh, new, interesting, and frankly, just a little sexier than plain ol’ Windows malware.
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Malware tools that allow attackers to gain complete remote control of smartphones have become a serious threat to users around the world, researchers told an overflow RSA conference audience.
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Attackers are once again exploiting the public's tendency for not keeping its software updated and its ongoing interest about Iran and its nuclear program to infect users with a backdoor Trojan.
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Security researchers from M86Security, are contributing the increase in malicious malware campaigns using HTML attachments, to the resurrection of the...
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Premium rate SMS trojans were discovered in Google's Android Market earlier today.
The developer, named "Lagostrod", offered supposed free versions of many popular applications. And while Google has shut down the official market account, sites such as AppBrain still list the downloads.
The cost to Germany is €1.99, and the cost to France is €4.50 (ouch).
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F-Secure Security Labs brings you the latest online security news from around the world. Ensure that you are up-to-date with the latest online threats to guarantee your online wellbeing.
We recently analyzed DevilRobber.A, a Mac OS X malware that has both backdoor and trojan-like capabilities. All the samples we've collected so far were from torrents uploaded by a single user account on The Pirate Bay website:
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The popular MySQL website served malware to visitors running Windows after it fell victim to a hack, a security company has revealed.
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Illegal snooping was rife at Trinity Mirror as well as News International, report finds...
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WHY (SHOULD I BE WORRIED)?
Worm:iOS/Ikee.A changed the phone's wallpaper Last week I gave a brief summary of the kinds of threats a user might encounter on the smartphones of today. This week’s article is supposed to cover the reasons why a user would worry about mobile malware, so let me give the short answer now: Usually, mobile malware attacks are motivated by: Bragging rights; money; stealing personal information that can be sold for money. For the user that gets hit by the malware, it means: Losing control over your phone; losing your money; someone else might be using your personal details for who-knows-what.
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