Tagged "Virus"

Facebook recently admitted that their system was hacked last month when members of their staff accidentally installed malware onto laptops. The social media giant claims the attack was sophisticated, but reports that no user data has been compromised. A statement from a post in Facebook’s security blog said, “This attack occurred when a handful of employees visited a mobile developer website that was compromised. The compromised website hosted an exploit which then allowed malware to [...]

Be careful of certain Android apps, in particular Superclean and DroidCleaner, as they are not what they appear to be. These apps are posing as cleanup tools for your Android smartphone or tablet but in reality, they are malware made to infect your computer using its microphone to snoop in on your conversations. These apps contain downloadable files that automatically execute after you plug your device into a Windows PC, according to Kaspersky’s blog. After [...]

Tumbr was recently the victim of a massive bug that affected some of the biggest blogs, including USA Today, CNET, The Verge and Reuters. Fortunately, the issue was resolved earlier this morning. The hacker group GNAA has claimed responsibility for the attack through their Twitter profile; claiming 8,600 unique Tumblr users affected. The official number of sites hacked hasn’t yet been verified. A spokeswoman from Tumbler gave the following statement: “There is a viral post [...]

Keep an eye out for a malicious worm disguised as a false message about your profile pic along with a link that spreads the message to other Skype users. This socially-engineered message is a devious one stating, “lol is this your new profile pic?” Clicking the link will download an executable file that installs a worm that attempts to take control of your computer to hold your content for ransom by creating a backdoor via [...]

An interesting bit of news… One of the pluses of Mac’s small market-share is that Virus/Malware writers have not targeted them as much as PC’s (less machines to attack). As Mac’s market share increases, more attention is paid to them by malware/virus writers. The company “Dr.Web” reported recently that 600,000 Macintosh computers are infected by a growing Mac botnet, with 274 of those based in Cupertino, California (Mac Headquarters?). The malware was first found in [...]

There has been a lot of hoopla recently about Android and the apparent (now proved false) reports of massive malware infestations in the Android Market. Thats been proved false by no-less than Symantec themselves (The ones who reported it originally!), but Google is indeed bumping up their efforts to keep the Android Market clean with Bouncer as well as reinforcing through words the security that’s already in place and has been for some time with [...]

You’ve heard of Viruses, Spam and Spyware, but there is another, arguably more dangerous threat to you and your business: Phishing. Phishing in a nutshell is a method of social engineering sensitive and valuable information from people that can be used to commit fraud against you. In a nutshell, its a way for nefarious and unscrupulous people to trick you into giving them your bank account, your passwords, or other information that they can use [...]

Symantec announced today that currently the largest outbreak of malware on the Android platform ever is ongoing. Its not a virus per-se, its just a set of junk programs that has some embedded trojan’s in them. Its one of the negatives of having such an open platform as Android is that some people out there can take advantage of the system and prey on others. The only clear way to get it off your device if [...]