Posts Tagged ‘cybercrime’
IN THE HEADLINES: New Malware Being Developed Around Impressive Business Model
Posted by: ID Guardian in: ● January 31, 2012
In yet another sign of how once-disorganized cybercrooks are evolving into professionally run businesses, crooks that develop and sell data stealing Trojans are now offering the kind of support that a legitimate software developer would be envious of. Security expert Brian Krebs recently reported on his blog about how the developer of one such Trojan, [...]
IN THE HEADLINES: The Zeus Trojan Strikes Again
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● January 20, 2012
It’s been a couple of years since I first started writing about Zeus, a very dangerous new type of banking Trojan that was blamed for stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from bank accounts across the country. And only last week I wrote about Zeus again, and how a dangerous new variant added a whole [...]
IN THE HEADLINES: New Worm Threatens Bank Accounts
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● January 19, 2012
Just as a new variety of the Zeus banking Trojan emerged to threaten bank accounts in a creative new way, researchers in Israel report the growth of a close cousin, a computer worm, which may be targeting Facebook accounts as a way to also break into bank accounts. The worm is called Ramnit and was [...]
IN THE HEADLINES: Get Used to Premium SMS Trojans
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● January 17, 2012
If you haven’t already heard of something called a Premium SMS Trojan, consider yourself warned. As Trojan attacks on Android smartphones and tablets soar, not all the attacks are what you would traditionally expect from a Trojan – like stealing your personal information or passwords. A growing number of these Trojans instead use your phone [...]
IN THE HEADLINES: A Busy Month for New Malware
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● September 28, 2011
You’ve probably never heard of a downloader Trojan, but think of them as the domestiques of the crybercrime world. In cycling, domestques are cyclists whose primary goal is not to win the race but to help their best cyclists win. Cybercrooks are now emulating this idea with the distribution of a Trojan whose primary role [...]
IN THE HEADLINES: Cybercriminals Focusing on Spear Phishing for Bigger Returns
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● July 27, 2011
A new report from Cisco suggests that cybercriminals are moving away from the mass email attacks that churn out millions of spam emails in the hope of trapping or tricking just a tiny percentage, and instead are focusing on smaller, more targeted attacks that cost less but earn more. According to Cisco, “Cybercriminals are balancing [...]
IN THE HEADLINES: Small Businesses on the Hook for Cyber Losses
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● June 23, 2011
A recent legal decision could spell big trouble for small businesses that fall victim to one of the most dangerous types of cybercrime to emerge in recent years. A judge in Maine recently sided with a bank sued by a small business owner who had lost nearly half a million dollars to one of the [...]
IN THE HEADLINES: Scareware King Makes $100 Million
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● June 22, 2011
I’m sure you’ve heard of scareware by now — fake anti-virus software that warns you of fake malware on your computer in order to trick you into paying real money to get rid of it. Like almost every cybercrime and cybercon in circulation, crooks invest considerable time and money into scams like this because they [...]
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