Malicious ads being used on YouTube YouTube is being used as a carrier for malicious ads, according to a blog post by Trend Micro. This is a recent development; previously malicious advertising targeted social media sites. Several of the videos with malicious ads had several million views. Un-patched versions of Internet Explorer are vulnerable. Currently,…
Patches released to combat Sandworm malware Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday has a greater relevance than usual this week: it includes a patch for a zero day vulnerability that has been used to target NATO, some European telecommunications companies and some Polish Energy Sector companies. The vulnerability was originally discovered on September 3rd by a company called…
Malware behind Emma Watson Facebook videos Salacious pictures and videos are increasingly being used by scammers to foist malware on unsuspecting victims. The conduit of choice for the scammers is often via well-known social media sites such as Facebook. The favourite subject of the pictures and/or videos has lately become well known celebrities. Another such…
POS malware hits Kmart Kmart (the US Company owned by Sears; not the Australian company owned by Wesfarmers) can be added to the growing list of retailers in the USA that have suffered a data breach in the last year. The latest breach has been attributed to malware installed in the retailer’s POS systems. A…
New version of Mayhem exploiting Shellshock Back in July, researchers at Yandex published their findings about a strain of malware specific to Linux and UNIX systems. The malware, called Mayhem, uses a PHP installation script, and is designed to be easily extendable to include extra modules. The extra modules can be downloaded when (and if)…
Tyupkin malware used to steal cash from ATMs Recently there have been indications that criminals have developed a sophisticated form of attack using malware installed on PCs running ATM software. The malware (dubbed Tyupkin) has been installed on at least 50 ATMs in Europe, and has resulted in the theft of millions of dollars in…
The impact of spam on business operations How much does spam actually impact business? Rather substantially, as it turns out. Help Net Security have reported on the findings of a survey by GFI software. The survey was done in the US, and consisted of 200 firms, with company size varying from a minimum of 5…
QNAP NAS latest bash casualty The bash shellshock vulnerability was first published last week. This week has seen both a flurry of patching and/or disabling of services, and the first exploits. Whilst servers are the main target of bash patching, there has been a growing awareness that other systems that use bash (in particular embedded…
MailShark Becomes National Cyber Security Awareness Month 2014 Champion 3rd October 2014 — MailShark today announced that it has become a Champion of National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM) 2014, joining a growing global effort among colleges and universities, businesses, government agencies, associations and non-profit organizations to promote online safety awareness. Celebrated every October, National…
Snapchat users fed weight loss spam If you are on Snapchat and start receiving messages from friends suggesting you need to lose weight, don’t be concerned. There has been an issue with Snapchat accounts sending out weight loss spam messages. The messages contain a website address that is registered in the name of the former…
