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As mobile marketers latch onto the convenience and cool-factor of QR codes, hackers are starting to take advantage of these square, scannable bar codes as a new way to distribute malware. Like all mobile attack vectors, it is a new frontier that security researchers say is not extremely prevalent, but which has a lot of [...]

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From SECNAP Alerts:
UPDATED Tuesday Dec. 20 8:45 a.m. ET:  The first instances of Kim Jong Il malware have been confirmed, as spam emails purporting to be about Kim’s death have begun to appear, according to Trend Micro. The subject lines may vary, but the emails have PDFs or Word documents attached, which of course hide malicious [...]

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From SECNAP Alerts:
Malware writers are continuing to exploit a high-profile zero-day flaw in Adobe Acrobat and Reader, using a spam attack to spread the remote code execution vulnerability in the wild. The attack arrives as an unsolicited financial report claiming to be from Barclay’s Capital. The attached PDF file launches the Reader and Acrobat attack, [...]

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Cybercriminals have widely spammed out a malware attack posing as software upgrades for Adobe Acrobat Reader and Adobe X Suite Advanced.
 
The emails, which pretend to come from Adobe, have a ZIP file attached that contains a version of the Zeus Trojan, designed to steal banking information from compromised computers.
 
The risk is that computer users might [...]

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As Android market share has shot up in recent months, so has the volume of malware designed for the mobile platform. There has been a 472 percent increase in Android malware samples in the past three months alone, according to research from Juniper Networks. While September saw a 28 percent jump in malware samples, numbers [...]

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From SECNAP Alerts:
One of the first discovered pieces of malware that could be considered a bootkit appears to have evolved, with new mechanisms that could allow it to slip past anti-virus solutions undetected. According to researchers, in recent months the malware identified as bootkit.MBR.Whistler.B has been seen infecting many master boot records due to its [...]

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Microsoft has published code to temporarily blunt attacks against a software vulnerability exploited by Duqu, an advanced piece of malicious software still being closely analyzed by security researchers.
Microsoft is working on a patch for the vulnerability in the Win32k TrueType font parsing engine, a component of various Windows operating systems. An attacker could exploit it [...]

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A computer virus has infected the cockpits of America’s Predator and Reaper drones, logging pilots’ every keystroke as they remotely fly missions over Afghanistan and other warzones. The virus, first detected nearly two weeks ago by the military’s Host-Based Security System, has not prevented pilots at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada from flying their [...]

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A worm has been discovered that, when unleashed, takes over DHCP and DNS servers and sends undesired requests to more malware-containing locations. Identified by the name of Worm(dot)Ropian.E, it immediately seizes the DNS and DHCP servers.
 
Because these are some of the most important services that control Internet connections, the malware can make sure users are [...]

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From SECNAP Alerts:
Hundreds of Go Daddy websites were compromised to point toward a site hosting malware over the weekend of September 17 and 18. The mass hack of around 445 sites involved the injection of hostile code into the .htaccess files. Go Daddy quickly removed the hostile code, and began working with its customers to [...]

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