Happy New Malware Year
A turbulent beginning of 2013
Every holiday season, almost nothing feels better than giving someone you care about the one gift he or she truly wanted. We all are more than happy to enjoy a couple of days off but it seems as if the bad guys were using these days to dig up exploit possibilities and other bugs inside the software we use and to presented the world with their ‘special’ New Year gifts. Let us have a look at how the year started and sum up a couple of threats we saw during the past weeks. ... read more
The Virus Bulletin Conference 2012 in Dallas, US
A full week of interesting papers, fruitful meetings and loads of events
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IE 0-Day (CVE-2012-4969) – JavaScript only
Attack found, exploiting in the wild and being capable of infecting the masses
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IE 0-Day exploit found "in the wild"
We recommend: Install Microsoft's patch!
Attackers are actively using a modified version of the PoC of the newly discovered flaw in the Internet Explorer (IE) to infect Internet users on a broad scale. ... read more
Curiosity can have dire consequences on the Internet!
Attackers use Facebook to distribute malware pretending to be a photo
For some days, G Data Security Labs have been observing a campaign on Facebook that is trying to infect as many Facebook users as possible with malware. Messages that contain nothing but a hyperlink to file hosting service Sendspace are sent to the users' contacts. ... read more
The New Java 0-Day Exploit Actively Endangers Web Surfers
The threat is real and has been spreading on websites around the globe
We have discovered the exploit on several websites and traced its tracks. One of the sites on which we found it belongs to an Albanian TV station. ... read more