Facebook has had it’s fair share of security woes and the latest is the discovery of a new Trojan that uses Facebook to communicate.
Interesting that it’s using the Facebook notes feature to communicate depending on title/subject of the note.
The actual malware itself is spread through doc/pdf exploits and not through any flaws in Facebook itself.

Researchers [...]

There have been a few stories about Windows 7, even one about Windows 7 UAC before and now it’s officially on sale I’d expect there to be many more.
As always malware and mass infections is a numbers game so the bad guys will always target the most popular and prolific operating systems to increase their [...]

This is one nasty piece of malware, seems like it’s working on a low level as per rootkits, there aren’t many technical details but it may well be operating on a Ring 0 level.
The level of detection by AV software is quite scary, especially since the malware is specifically targeting bank login details and it [...]

This latest mass infection is through a vector I really don’t understand, see as though you can legitimately download Windows 7 from Microsoft.
I guess people just prefer BitTorrent downloads to HTTP downloads, and whoever had this smart idea capitalized on that.
Microsoft should perhaps do something about that and put out a legitimate BitTorrent copy. I [...]

The latest Phishing E-mails going round are leveraging on people’s need to digest the latest information, in this case about the Israel-Hamas conflict.
They set up a fake CNN site which prompts you to upgrade your flash player to view the video, of course it’s not Flash but a Trojan targeting your sensitive financial information.
I don’t [...]

You might remember the Sony BMG Rootkit fiasco back in 2006 when the whole Internet was up in arms about Sony installing a rootkit in the name of Digital Restriction Rights Management.
Another piece of malware has been uncovered that has been linked to Sony and their Fingerprint reader.

Researchers have unearthed rootkit-like functionality in an enterprise [...]

Microsoft users are being targeted again by malware via e-mail, scammers/spammers never give up and for once the e-mail looks fairly legitimate.
Usually this kind of ‘baitware’ is riddled with terrible grammar and horrible spellings, do make sure you brief the less security aware friends you have about this though just in case.

Email scams are a [...]

Another one bites the dust, this time for spying on a teenage girl via webcam. 4 years is a reasonable sentence this time I think as the case borders on many offenses such as blackmail, indecent behaviour, infringement of privacy, unlawful access and probably a few more.
It was a pretty simple hack as it goes, [...]

Another new development in the malware arena, this new version of Zlob will actually log onto your router and change the DNS settings to hijack your traffic.
Pretty interesting approach and it will work because 99% of people won’t change the default password on their routers. Let’s face it, have you changed it?

A new Trojan horse [...]

After banning hacking tools it looks like the German police are looking into digital wiretapping and creating ‘whitehat’ trojans for monitoring the bad guys…
Of course they define who the bad guys are, and according to law 202(c) it could be us..
This is very definitely questionable when it comes to ethics, it’s almost as bad as [...]