Malware
Monday review - the hot 16 stories of the week
Get yourself up to date with everything we've written in the last seven days - it's weekly roundup time.
Monday review - the hot 18 stories of the week
Missed any stories in the past seven days?
Here's our weekly roundup, just in case...
Botnet smackdown, Oracle on Java, Passwords you can eat - 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Here's our latest 60 Second Security video.
From botnet takedowns to authentication tokens you swallow...here's the latest security news in a easily digestible format!
FBI and Microsoft in massive takedown of "Citadel" crimeware
Microsoft just announced the successful disruption of 1462 "Citadel" botnets.
You read that correctly!
Not a botnet of 1462 computers, but 1462 separate botnets...
Monday review - the hot 15 stories of the week
It's weekly roundup time. Here's all the great stuff we've written in the past seven days.
Android malware in pictures - a blow-by-blow account of mobile scareware
Fake anti-virus is mostly for Windows, with OS X a long way back in second place. But other operating systems aren't exempt from the depredations of cybercriminals.
Paul Ducklin shows you round some recently-discovered Android scareware...
Sorry? Is a US report recommending ransomware to target copyright thieves?
Should suspected copyright abusers really have their computers attacked with malware in a bid to retrieve stolen data?
Monday review - the hot 21 stories of the week
Catch up with everything we've written in the last seven days - it's weekly roundup time.
Breakfast malware at Tiffany's? Trojan horses spammed out widely
Little blue boxes from Tiffany & Co. are the stuff of dreams for many. Don't let an unexpected email delivery - apparently from the company - make you so giddy with an excitement that you end up with a computer nightmare.
Inside the "PlugX" malware with SophosLabs - a fascinating journey into a malware factory...
Join SophosLabs Principal Researcher Gabor Szappanos as he takes you on a fascinating journey into the latest "product" from the PlugX malware factory.
Monday review - the hot 24 stories of the week
In case you missed any recent stories, here's everything we wrote in the last seven days.
How to measure the biggest and most dangerous threats
Just about every security company publishes some sort of prevalence data - those little bar charts and top tens showing the most important and widespread threats. The raw data behind these easy-to-consume representations can be very useful to security experts and testers.
Outbreak! Fake Amazon UK emails spammed out, delivering malware
Although there has been increased talk recently on drive-by-downloads and compromised websites being used to deliver malware, it's worth remembering that email-based malware is far from dead.
Monday review - the hot 20 stories of the week
Get up to date with everything we wrote in the past seven days - it's weekly roundup time.
Lifting the lid on the Redkit exploit kit
In the first of a two part series, Fraser Howard takes a closer look at the Redkit exploit kit.
Learn more about how this kit works and the compromised web servers that are being used to host it.
German ministry replaced brand new PCs infected with Conficker worm, rather than disinfect them
After computers in Germany became infected with the notorious Conficker worm, 170 of them were disposed of and replaced with new equipment at the taxpayers' expense.
Wouldn't it have been easier (and cheaper) to have wiped the drives and restored from a backup?
"Wire transfer canceled"? Watch out for spammed-out malware attack
If you've received an email in your inbox telling you that your wire transfer has been cancelled, take care - as it's the latest attempt by online criminals to infect the general public's Windows computers.
Monday review - the hot 20 stories of the week
Catch up with all the security news from the last seven days - it's weekly roundup time.
Mac malware found in malformed Word documents - is China to blame?
Minority groups in China appear to have been targeted by a Mac malware attack, delivered via boobytrapped Word documents.
Who could possibly be interested in targeting their computers?
The Redkit malware exploit gang has a message for security blogger Brian Krebs
Award-winning security blogger Brian Krebs is loved by everyone on the internet... apart from the criminals.
Find out what they're saying about him in their latest version of the Redkit exploit kit.
