Microsoft has confirmed that two devices on its corporate network were compromised to help a notorious gang of Russian criminals push Viagra, Human Growth Hormone, and other knockoff pharmaceuticals. The admission came in response to an article The Register published on Tuesday. It reported that two internet addresses belonging to Microsoft were helping to route [...]

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The Stuxnet malware is a game changer for critical information infrastructure protection, an EU security agency has warned. ENISA (European Network and Information Security Agency) warns that a similar attack of malware capable of sabotaging industrial control systems as Stuxnet may occur in future. The worm, whose primary method of entry into systems is infected [...]

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The top ranking e-threat for the third quarter, with 11 percent of the total infections in the world, is Trojan.AutorunINF.Gen. This piece of malware is consistently among the most “popular” threats each month as it easily spreads via removable devices and Windows shared folders. The Windows Autorun feature is exploited by malware authors to force [...]

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Found on Help Net Security. You have heard of Black Hat, Defcon, RSA Conference and Info Security, but does the name MalCon ring a bell? Probably not, since the newly started conference on malware is yet to be held for the first time and it’s only in the call-for-papers phase of its existence. But, the [...]

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Chinese authorities have closed down a firm that allegedly trained hackers to develop spyware and launch cyberattacks. Police in the central Chinese province of Hubei province arrested three people when they closed down Black Hawk Safety Net, described by the official Xinhua news agency as running the country’s biggest hacker training website. Black Hawk Safety [...]

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