A recent report by Symantec documented a campaign of targeted malware attacks that began as early as April 2011 and continued up to October 2011. During this time, the attackers managed to compromise at least 100 computers around the world. This report illustrates some of the key findings in our latest white paper, Trends in Targeted Attacks.
Targeted Campaigns
Targeted malware attacks are rarely isolated events. It is more useful to think of them as campaigns – a series of failed and ...
The security industry is currently buzzing with talks about a threat dubbed as the precursor to the next STUXNET.
According to a Symantec analysis, portions of the code are very similar to STUXNET, and was likely written by the same cybercriminals as the well-known threat. Unlike STUXNET, however, Duqu does not have code that suggests it was developed to access SCADA systems. Instead, its final payload appears to be inclined toward information theft.
Duqu is made up of several components. The SYS ...
After tricking users into viewing ads through a Facebook scam, cybercriminals are again capitalizing on Steve Jobs's death through malicious spam.
We were able to find spam that contain the text, "Steve Jobs Alive" or "Steve Jobs Not Dead."
Another Steve Jobs-related spam we saw was written in Portuguese, which includes a short text about his death:
The text in the message above roughly translates to the following:
Subject: Creator of Steve Jobs of Apple's Mac, iPod and iPad dies
Steve Jobs, died of cancer ...
There are already many known ways by which cybercriminals target Facebook users. In the infographic we recently released, "The Geography of Social Media Threats," we illustrated the different social networking features cybercriminals abused and the threats that these usually lead to.
In the course of conducting research, we found one specific attack that targeted Facebook users through a different route—malvertisements.
We encountered an infection chain wherein the user is led from a page within Facebook to a couple of ad sites then, finally, ...
Online threats and malware have been plaguing Internet users for more than 20 years now. While today's cybercsecurity headlines often refer to the latest data breaches, Facebook scams, and the 1410% increase in the Android malware volume, it is interesting to note that the tools cybercriminals use today are, in a sense, the BRAIN-child (pun intended) of two Pakistani brothers who ironically wanted to do good and to prevent software piracy. From the PC boom in the 1980s to the ...
