Security News

Apple’s malware problem is accelerating (Help Net Security)
2017-01-19 16:07

For a long time, one of the most common reasons for buying an Apple computer over a Windows-based one was that the former was less susceptible to viruses and other malware. However, the perceived...

323,000 pieces of malware detected daily (Help Net Security)
2016-12-08 12:30

According to Kaspersky Lab, the number of new malware files detected by its products in 2016 increased to 323,000 per day. This is an increase of 13,000 from the amount in 2015, and a significant...

WWW Malware Hides in Images (Schneier on Security)
2016-12-07 14:06

There's new malware toolkit that uses stegaography to hide in images: For the past two months, a new exploit kit has been serving malicious code hidden in the pixels of banner ads via a...

Disttrack wiper malware hits Saudi Arabia’s aviation agency (Help Net Security)
2016-12-05 17:42

Shamoon attackers with their Disttrack wiper malware have hit Saudi Arabian entities again. The Saudi government confirmed the latest breaches on Thursday, and for now the identity of only one...

Gooligan Malware Breaches 1 Million Google Accounts (Threatpost)
2016-12-01 10:00

The Gooligan Android malware steals Google authentication tokens from mobile devices to breach user and corporate accounts.

Gooligan Android malware used to breach a million Google accounts (Help Net Security)
2016-11-30 19:58

Check Point security researchers have revealed a new variant of Android malware, breaching the security of more than one million Google accounts. The new malware campaign, named Gooligan, roots...

Deutsche Telekom confirms malware attack on its routers (Help Net Security)
2016-11-29 00:09

German telecom and ISP giant Deutsche Telekom has confirmed that the connectivity problems some 900,000 of its customers experienced on Sunday are the result of a hack attempt. “Following the...

German Android users bombarded with banking malware masquerading as legitimate apps (Help Net Security)
2016-11-21 15:22

Fortinet researcher Kai Lu warns of a fake email app that is capable of stealing login credentials from 15 different mobile banking apps for German banks. “Once this malicious app is installed and...

Malware masquerading as an image spreads via Facebook (Help Net Security)
2016-11-21 14:44

Malware spreading via Facebook has become a rare occurrence, but it does still occasionally crop up. The latest instance has been noticed by malware researcher Bart Blaze, and takes the form of...

Researchers set to work on malware-detecting CPUs (Help Net Security)
2016-11-11 13:30

Adding hardware protections to software ones in order to block the ever increasing onslaught of computer malware seems like a solid idea, and a group of researchers have just been given a $275,000...