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Zeus Trojan Invades Syria’s Financial Sector
Online-banking customers in Syria have been warned to be extra vigilant when conducting their financial matters on the web to avoid falling prey to the Zeus Trojan malware, according to Day Press News.
Cyber criminals using the Zeus Trojan have been able to siphon millions of dollars from bank accounts worldwide by stealing online banking credentials. More than 40,000 variants of the malware have been recorded. In February 2010,…
Spammers Use ‘Disposable’ Domains to Prevent Shutdowns
Spammers and botnet operators have been reported as using disposable domains for their activities to evade security technologies.
According to research by security firm M86 Security Labs, spammers are buying dozens of domains at a time and moving from one to another as often as several times a day to avoid getting shut down. For years, spammers have been buying domains in bulk and using…
Pre-Infected Samsung Smartphones Distributed
Published on 4 Jun, 2010 at 10:57 in Cloud | Viewed 113 times | No Comments
Another cellphone manufacturer has fallen victim to an increasingly common attack in which phones’ memory cards are infected with malware during the manufacturing process and then shipped out to customers.
Kaspersky researchers said the latest manufacturer to be affected is Samsung, which has acknowledged that the microSD cards in a batch of its S8500 Wave mobile phones sold in Germany were infected with an autorun…
Facebook Used to Find Money Mules
Published on 1 Jun, 2010 at 14:45 in Cloud | Viewed 630 times | 3 Comments
Phishers are looking into different ways of reaching new recruits of cyber criminals by casting their nets onto social networking sites, creating special Facebook groups for their work-at-home scams, according to Kaspersky Lab.
Far from a novel idea, phishers have been using social networks for years to find new recruits. Now, the scammers have created Facebook groups specifically…
