A million people have been infected in less than a week after a malware campaign targeted visitors to outdated websites. The attacks exploited vulnerabilities in older versions of Java and Adobe Flash to hijack visitors’ computers; as of last Wednesday, the campaign had infected about 200,000 websites, according to security researchers quoting Google search results. A similar [...]
30 Sep 2011 |
Morto Worm Causes Network ChallangeThe Morto worm is considered a medium threat as it is easy to remove from your system once identified, however while on your system it has the ability to conduct denial of service (DoS) attacks by constricting your bandwidth. Most security vendors have identified the threat now, so it should not pose much if any [...] 
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27 Sep 2011 |
Website Hack Causes Problems For VisitorsMySQL.com has been hacked, because of this everybody visiting the site has been subjected to a torrent of malicious software. Targeting people using Windows as an operating system, there is no way of accurately knowing how many people have fallen victim to this attack but with an average of 400k people a day the number could be huge. The [...]
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26 Sep 2011 |
Lurid APT Attack Infects 1,465 ComputersOver 60 countries have been infected with the malware. These have been countries like Russia, Kazakhstan and Vietnam, the more notable sectors hit include space programs and government agencies. It has been identified by analysts working for a security research company that the attack exploited holes in Adobe reader as well as compressed RAR files that seemed harmless [...]
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