Posts Tagged ‘malware’
PandaLabs Reports Trojans, Anonymous, Android Threats Dominate Threat Landscape
In a new report examining the threat landscape over the third quarter, PandaLabs researchers found that five million new malware samples were created from July through September, including a peak of new trojans.
In fact, three out of every four new strains created during the quarter was a trojan, the preferred category by which cybercriminals carry out the theft of information.
Among the report's other findings, the Anonymous group continues making headlines, albeit not for its hacktivist actions, but for the arrest of some members – 15 in Italy, 16 in the Unites States – for their alleged role in the theft of data or disruption of websites, including PayPal.
Read the rest of this report in the SCMagazine.com 4 November 2011 article by clicking here.
Android Named Number One Mobile Device for Malware
This week McAfee released its quarterly report on technology threats and pointed to a dramatic spike in attacks on Android. Interestingly, the report does not even list Apple's iOS due to the rare instances of malware found. (see chart)
McAfee also stated that attacks on the Android platform drove it to the number one position within three months and as more users adopt Android technology, more users will be effected by malware attacks.
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="570" caption="Percentage of new mobile malware found in Q2 by OS"][/caption]
See more about this story at Business Insider August 24, 2011
Malware ads hit London Stock Exchange Web site
IDG News Service - Visitors to the London Stock Exchange's Web site were hit with malicious ads over the weekend, designed to pop up fake security messages on their computers.
The culprit was an online advertisement that was somehow placed on the Unanimis ad network, which is used by the the Web site, a London Stock Exchange spokeswoman said Monday. "We had an advert on the site that linked through to a third-party website that was hosting this malware," she said. She did not know how many people had been served the malicious ad. Read more about this incident here on ComputerWorld.com.
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One in 3,000 websites harbouring malware: Kaspersky
Increasing number of legitimate websites falling prey to cyber criminals
Kaspersky has said that the proportion of websites secretly harbouring malware climbed to one in 3,000 in 2010.
In its report, the security company has stated an increase in the number of Web-based attacks last year, when more than 580 million incidents were detected.
However instead of targeting websites with illegal content, such as pirate films and music, cyber criminals have turned their attention increasingly to legitimate websites, such as shopping and gaming. Read more here at CBR.
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