Analyzing malware can be a lengthy process. Malware today can be simple, like something that downloads another program from a rogue…
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Beware of Fake UPS Exception E-mails
A spam email claiming to be from UPS is making the rounds. As seen in the image above, the e-mail states…
“No War on Syria” Spam Used To Harvest Emails
It appears that spammers never waste an opportunity, not even with the Syrian Civil War. During its course, there have been…
A Look at Malware with Virtual Machine Detection
It’s not uncommon for the malware of today to include some type of built-in virtual machine detection. Virtual Machines (VMs) are…
Process Explorer Now Including VirusTotal Support
Process Explorer—part of the Microsoft’s Sysinternals suite of applications—recently received an upgrade allowing users to query VirusTotal for files running on their…
Neutrino Delivers Fake Flash Malware Hosted on SkyDrive
As cloud computing becomes more popular, malware authors are also taking interest in using this technology to store their own files—except,…
Facebook bug bounty program pays highest reward to date
Facebook awarded its highest bug bounty to date to a Brazilian Security Engineer Reginaldo Silva, yesterday. The bounty, an estimated total of…
Revealed: POS Malware Used in Target Attack
Security journalist Brian Krebs revealed details yesterday surrounding the malware sample used in the Target cyber-attacks, which originally took place November 27…
Taken down by the ‘DERP’
An unknown hacker, who goes by the name of ‘DERP’, recent began targeting many popular video-game websites with Distributed Denial of…
Target US Stores Suffer Massive Data Breach UPDATED
Update:01/13 – Target CEO and President Gregg Steinhaffel confirmed in an interview with CNBC that the store’s PoS (point-of-sale) terminals were infected…