SharePayPal, eBay, HSBC Top-Phished Institutions; China and Russia Hosting Majority of Malware – Predictions for Malware Activity Over The Second Half of the Year
Today BitDefender, released a report that found the first half of 2010 saw a rise of worms exploiting various Web 2.0 platforms. The report examined data from January through June 2010 and found social networks and Web 2.0 services have become one of the most valuable channels of malware dissemination during the last six months, while phishers focused on impersonating PayPal and eBay, …

ShareA mass mail invitation to a suspicious “do-it-yourself” account hacking session puts Windows Live Messenger users at risk.
The e-mail marking the first step of this data harvesting scheme is very likely to go down in the history of cybercrime-generated fiction on human behavior – claiming that if you tell people something is illegal, they won’t do it. This is how the promised tool gets the thinnest of all legitimacy coatings: “This tool could be used by hackers to hack MSN password, it should not Windows Live password hacking is illegal! …

ShareSuccess stories are cybercriminals’ go to sources of victims and the iPad craze couldn’t have been left out of this picture. According to some reports, Apple sold 150.000 iPads in the first 60 hours of presale availability, with almost 100.000 of these coveted devices being pre-ordered in the first 10 hours. The figures make it clear as daylight why malware creators were so keen on crashing this promising party.
The invitation to the “contagious fiesta” comes via the e-mail: an unsolicited message instructs iPad users to download on their …

ShareAs more and more people are using Google Chrome and its functionalities to browse the net and to organize information, cybercriminals have set their minds on exploiting this environment to spread malware and steal users’ information.
The story is simple: Google Chrome users receive an unsolicited e-mail which announces that a new extension of their favorite browser has been developed to facilitate their access to documents from e-mails.

An apparently unsuspicious link is provided, and the recipients are advised to follow it in order to download the new extension. Once they …

ShareA malware-spreading mechanism targeting the “iPhone unlocking” fans goes to prove that cybercrime is never short of imagination.
This is how the story goes: you receive an e-mail in which you find out that you might get your hands on a new version of an iPhone unlocking application which basically allows you to overcome vendor set network restrictions. All you have to do is….yes, click a link that will take you to the web page on which the technical wonder awaits you.
As you get further on into the maze of this …

ShareBitDefender today has released an emergency update to shield users against the newly-discovered vulnerability in Internet Explorer versions 6 and 7. Microsoft has detailed the attack scenarios in security advisor #981374, announcing that a patch is being made in order to mitigate the vulnerability.
Users running Internet Explorer versions 6 and 7 can get infected by simply visiting a specially crafted web page that uses highly obfuscated JavaScript code to create a use-after-free error, such as a pointer being accessed after the deletion of an object.
Anatomy of the attack
Initially, …