ESET has published its annual review of the past year's threat trends and compiled predictions for 2013. According to the new report, the 2013 threatscape will see major growth of mobile malware and i…
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Mobile malware, botnets and attacks on the cloud to rise
Researchers from two security firms have detected widespread SMS spam campaigns aimed at making users download a new Android Trojan that ropes their devices into a mobile botnet for sending our more s…
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Android botnet spreads SMS spam
Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news, videos and articles: Motives behind IT budget spend and 2013 cloud trends A global survey of 550 CIOs, IT Directors, and senior I…
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Week in review: Malicious QR codes, Tor-powered botnet, and Mac users hit with SMS fraud
A seismic shift in who controls the Internet? Another Mac malware outbreak? Your smart TV being highjacked for a DDoS attack? Whatever 2013 may bring, it’s sure to be an interesting year. Here’s F-Sec…
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Top 7 security predictions for 2013
Rapid7 researchers have recently unearthed an unusual piece of malware that turned out to be crucial to the formation of an elusive botnet – dubbed Skynet by the researchers – whose existence has been…
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Researchers uncover Tor-powered Skynet botnet
22-year-old Christopher Weatherhead from Northampton, U.K., has been convicted on Thursday on one count of conspiracy to impair the operation of computers for his involvement in the DDoS campaign agai…
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U.K. hacker convicted for taking part in Anonymous attacks
The hackers behind the Gameover variant of the popular Zeus banking Trojan have rented the massive Cutwail botnet in order to send out millions of fake emails carrying the malware, warns Dell SecureWo…
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Gameover gang uses Cutwail botnet to swell its own
Whether motivated by an extreme form of free expression or criminal intent, distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS attacks) are increasingly commonplace worldwide. Yet there remains a universal m…
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Most Americans uninformed about DDoS attacks
Despite the increasing sophistication and severity of cyber attacks, a survey of more than 700 senior IT professionals reveals that organizations are surprisingly unarmed to deal with today’s threat l…
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65% of organizations experience three DDoS attacks a year
As the process of owning systems and dragging them into botnets becomes ever more commercialized, exploit kits have emerged as a favorite of attackers. Their point-click-own nature means even non-tech…
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Life cycle and detection of an exploit kit