Tag Archives: Trojans

Cyberbit has launched an international competition that will subject participating teams to attacks simulated through a company-built platform to determine the best defensive group of cyber professionals.

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity seeks industry feedback on a draft broad agency announcement about a program that aims to detect malicious behavior in artificial intelligence-based tools. IARPA said Friday in a FedBizOpps notice it aims to gather information from technology vendors that could build or provide software designed …

New scams conducted via Facebook and Twitter have been wreaking havoc on users in the last several days, PandaLabs reported. The first one, Asprox.N, has been identified as a Trojan sent via email informing users their Facebook account is being used to distribute spam. For that reason, the user’s login …

Police in China have solved 180 cyber attack cases and arrested more than 460 suspects as of the end of November, but the cyber crime situation in the country remains “very grave,” said an unnamed ministry official. Additionally, 14 websites have been shut down for allegedly distributing hacker software, training …

Viruses, Trojans, data-stealing malware, and data leaks were rated as big IT concerns among small businesses, according to Trend Micro‘s 2010 corporate end user survey. A total of 1,600 end users in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and Japan were polled. On average, 63 percent of small businesses …

Sweden would never have been able to protect itself against a worm like Stuxnet, and an attack by a similarly complex malware on the kingdom’s critical infrastructure would have had devastating–even fatal–consequences, warns a cybersecurity expert. TrueSec‘s security expert Marcus Murray told Dagens Nyheter the 1.18 megabyte virus that infected …

Amazon has long been a target for scammers attempting to use the online retailer’s name for phishing scams in hopes of luring users to hand over personal information that can be used to empty bank accounts or steal identities. The latest scam involving Amazon’s name comes in form of an …

According to a recently released Microsoft study, the vast majority of threats detected on infected computers in the U.S. are malware. The firm detected malware on 7.8 out of every 1,000 computers scanned in the U.S. Trojans were the most common form of malware found on infected U.S. computers. The …

A hacker who broke into brokerage accounts at Charles Schwab, laundered more than $246,000, and sold stolen credit-card numbers has been sentenced by the Manhattan Federal Court to 37 months in prison. From approximately September 2006 through December 2007, Aleksey Volynskiy and Alexander Bobnev participated in a scheme to steal …

“Cyber war has already begun,” writes Richard Clarke in his new book Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It. He says “nations are already preparing the battlefield” in cyberspace by “hacking into each other’s networks and infrastructures, laying in trapdoors and logic bombs …