Conficker: Down but not out.
Conficker camouflages new Windows infections. Windows PCs infected with Conficker are more likely to be compromised by other malware because the worm masks secondary infections and makes those machines easier to exploit, a security expert found. That is the biggest…
Incessant Blackhole spam runs likely made by same group
An incessant string of spam e-mail campaigns leading to Web sites hosting the Blackhole exploit kit are hitting inboxes around the world in waves. The latest and most prominent ones consisted of the fake Facebook, LinkedIn, U.S. Postal Service, and…
Targeted attacks, mobile vulnerabilities on the rise
The findings of the latest “Internet Security Threat Report” from Symantec can be summed up as: “Attacks are rising, but the number of new vulnerabilities is decreasing.” This describes the threat landscape in 2011 in which hackers continued to exploit…