Web threats

In this first part we’ll look at some very professional phishing and malware attacks that use digitally-signed malware, a breached customer database used for online ticket sales, SSL-certified phishing domains and a lot of social engineering.

In the past year, many users have been forced to deal with BitGuard, a system designed to change home pages and search engine results.

During the course of the last nine months in particular that trust in the Internet has been eroded and replaced with suspicion. How do we fix this?

Over the last few months I have been closely monitoring so-called Darknet resources, mostly the Tor network, and the cybercriminal element is growing.

The largest website in Sweden; Aftonbladet is spreading malware.

However one of the things that drew my attention was the detection of many PHP Backdoors with not-so-common extensions, such as JPG or MP3. Maybe a false positive? Worth taking a look!

In 2013 security issues around mobiles have reached new heights and attained a new level of maturity in terms of both quality and quantity.

Once again, it’s time for us to deliver our customary retrospective of the key events that have defined the threat landscape in 2013.

Any online project – be it a long-lost blog, or a new start-up’s web app – has a very important performance feature called a “maximum load”. This indicator makes itself known when a web app either partially or fully fails to perform its assigned functions to process user requests. For some owners, this may mean

Users can become the victim of a drive-by attack and, if the user’s browser or the browser’s plug-ins have the necessary vulnerabilities, malware will be downloaded to and installed on the victim’s computer.

Proxy auto-config (PAC) files are a modern resource that exist on all modern browsers.

While I was investigating the Trojan.JS.Iframe.aeq case one of the files dropped by the Exploit Kit was an Applet exploiting a vulnerability.

According to KSN data, Kaspersky Lab products detected and neutralized a total of 983 051 408 threats in the second quarter of 2013.

Kaspersky Lab’s mission is to protect the world from viruses. But the company also believes it has a duty to safeguard our children from content which could be harmful to youngsters.

Malicious PACs used by Brazilian bad guys aiming to steal bitcoins