More dodgy upgrade madness
A faulty signature update from GRISoft published this week meant that its popular AVG anti-virus package falsely warned versions of Adobe Reader were infected with a Trojan.…
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Cheeky Trojan drifts onto the net
The general dumbing down of the virus creation process along with attempts by for-profit hackers to tie up the resources of security firms mean that anti-virus sofware vendors are beginning to need three alphabetical letters for some Trojan families.…
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USAJobs, the official job search site for the federal government, said Wednesday that more than 146,000 users had their account information stolen as a result of an attack on job search giant Monster.com earlier this month. In mid August, attackers compromised Monster.com accounts gaining access to the company’s resume database. With the help of a Trojan horse program targeted at Monster.com users, the attackers made off with the name, address, telephone number, and email address of at least 46,000 Monster.com users. Anti-virus giant Symantec later stated that as many as 1.6 million people may have had their information stolen in the attacks, which used e-mails that addressed recipients by their real names. A snapshot of the letter Monster.com mailed to users affected by the attack. Turns out that Monster Worldwide is the technology provider for USAJobs, which is run by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. Peter Graves, an […]
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‘Dude what if your wife finds this’
Miscreants behind the Storm Worm have begun attacking Blogger, littering hundreds of pages with titillating messages designed to trick visitors into clicking on poisonous links.…
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It would great if the compromised Web servers I wrote about last week at Lawrence Livermore National Labs were an aberration, but sadly they are not. Conducting a simple Google search for adult-themed search terms found in “.gov” domains produces some very interesting results, including pages serving up adult videos along with a generous helping of spyware. Several pages on both the official Web sites for the State of Louisiana and the Virgin Islands Housing Finance Authority show up prominently in the search results for porn at dot-gov domains. A handful of pages on those sites feature a blank video player that prompts the visitor to install a special video “codec” in order to view the adult movie. Visitors who agree to install the codec inadvertantly agree to also install a piece of spyware that modifies your browser’s home page, produces security alert icons on the victim’s Windows desktop, […]
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