A British court has sentenced four men to prison after they admitted they used sophisticated trojan software to steal almost £600,000 from bank accounts and send it to Eastern Europe. London’s Southwark Crown Court on Friday imposed sentences of as much as 4 and a half years on the men. According to IDG News, they [...]

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Crimeware distributors have begun using Facebook as a command and control channel for a Trojan that turns compromised Windows PCs into zombie drones. Zombie clients poll the Notes section of the mobile version of Facebook for instructions. Compromised clients might be instructed to download further code from a specified web site or told to wait [...]

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According to Microsoft’s Security Intelligence Report 2009, phishing and worm infections both rose in the first half of 2009. In particular, the company reports a significant increase in the number of phishing attacks on web-based social networks. Between January and June of this year, phishers are reported to have widened their attacks to capture access [...]

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The foreign ministry characterised the incident as a “virus attack” but said computer systems were targeted with the intent of gathering specific information.The extent of the breach is unknown and officials did not say what information was targeted. They are still trying to track down the source of the attack. The hack was apparently designed [...]

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I remember someone told me propagating a trojan nowadays by email is ineffective and the stupidest suggestion I made here. Even if not very elegant or 1337 apparently it’s still quite effective as you can read in this news article. People still doubleclick on executable attachments as a dog will chase the tennisball when you [...]

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