Tag Archives: malware

A new worm is taking aim at the popular WordPress blogging platform. First discovered on August 11th, it affects those who host their own blogs. It works by exploiting vulnerability in the software’s permalink structure. Once in it makes itself …

Trojans remain the most popular form of malware on the Internet, according to a report from IBM Managed Security Services. The report, which is prepared quarterly by Big Blue’s Internet Security X-force, estimated that more than 56 percent of the …

The malware infected CDs mailed to several credit unions late last month may have been part of an authorized pen test. The SANS Internet Storm Center said they were notified by Microsolved that they are responsible for the mailing. Starting …

A new report by IBM is showing a steady decline in email phishing attacks. In 2008, phishing attacks made up 0.5 percent of all spam but so far this year that number has dropped to 0.1 percent. At the same …

Experts in Australia have discovered that the Gumblar botnet, which first appeared on the web in May, has come back to life and is pumping out spam. Gumblar started it’s life as malware that attacked websites. It searched for FTP …

A new malware attack is lurking behind emails made to look like Outlook updates sent by Microsoft. The messages look authentic and include a link that looks like it points to update.microsoft.com but actually points to a malicious domain. If …

A large scale attack on UK government websites has been discovered. Hundreds of sites for schools, government offices, universities and more have been compromised to include links and other references to porn sites or shady pharmacies. The hacks were likely …

Security experts say over 40,000 websites have been hacked to redirect unsuspecting users to a malicious site that tries to infect their PCs. The compromised sites were hit with an SQL injection attack which left malicious JavaScript code behind. Users …

A new wave of malicious spam hitting inboxes uses Western Union’s Money Transfer Service in its attempt to trick recipients into downloading its payload. The spam messages carry the subject line “Western Union Transfer MTCN:” and a random number. The …

University of California Santa Barbara researchers gave us a rare look inside of a botnet, when they recently took control of the Torpig botnet for a period of ten days and observed its malicious dealings. According to a report on …