The Blackhole Exploit Kit (BHEK) spam run has already assumed various disguises during its course. Some variants have taken various forms, such as official bank notice, cable provider email update, social networking email, and fake courier notification.
Lately, we have seen a slew of spam crafted as a notice from the popular retail chain Walmart. However, this spam run offers something different.
Figure 1. Notice supposedly from Walmart
In this campaign, some of the URLs lead to Cyrillic domain names. These domains were ...
Recent incidents highlight how frequently - and creatively - cybercriminals try to steal data. From "homemade browsers" to million-user data breaches, to the daily theft carried out every day by infostealers and phishing attacks, every day.
All this stolen information ends up for sale in the underground to the highest bidder. From there, it can be used in many uniformly illegal ways - from identity theft, to credit card fraud, to launching attacks on other users. They can also be used to ...
A new Internet Explorer zero-day exploit has been spotted in a compromised website of the US Department of Labor.
When users visit the compromised website, it loads a malicious script which Trend Micro detects as JS_DLAGENT.USR. This particular script was hosted on the compromised site itself. It loads another script (this time, hosted on a malicious server) detected as JS_KILLAV.AA.
Once executed, JS_KILLAVA.AA obtains specific information from the infected machine such as the installed Adobe Reader and Flash version as well as security ...
Windows XP is officially on its last legs - as far as Microsoft is concerned. There is less than a year remaining before official support ends for the 11-year-old operating system on April 8, 2014.
For users, the biggest impact of this will be that Microsoft will no longer release security updates for Windows XP vulnerabilities after that date. This wouldn't be a problem, if it weren't for the fact that so many users are still using XP. Net Applications data ...
Two of the hottest buzzwords circulating in the IT world today are “SCADA” and “cloud computing.” Combining the two technologies has been talked about and is starting to garner more attention because of the potential cost savings, system redundancy, and uptime benefits.
Like most IT companies, industrial control system (ICS) devices can benefit from cloud use. The cloud is and will remain a viable business additive for traditional IT worldwide. SCADA devices do not differ from IT devices in that they ...
