According to local media reports, hackers were able to snoop upon emails and steal passwords from computers belonging to lawmakers at the Japanese parliament for over a month. A report in the Asahi Shimbun claims that PCs and servers were infected after a Trojan horse was emailed to a a Lower House member in July. The
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The death of Libyan dictator Colonel Gaddafi has almost inevitably resulted in cybercriminals taking advantage of the news story, and the general public’s seeming interest in viewing ghoulish photos and videos of his last moments. Malicious hackers have spammed out an attack posing as pictures of Gaddafi’s death, tricking users into believing that they came
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One of the topics I frequently get asked about by customers when they visit SophosLabs, is what do we do about the hoards of legitimate web sites that we see getting hit with malware? How do we go about alerting them to the problem? How can we help to get things cleaned up quickly thereby
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As many North Americans return to their offices after a long Labor Day weekend, they may find something unpleasant in their email inboxes. A malware campaign has been widely distributed over the last couple of days, using a wide variety of different subject lines and attachment names. There’s one thing in common between all the
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Facebook users are sending scary warnings to each other regarding a supposed new piece of malware spreading across the social network. Attention!!!If you see anyone post out an application written “May God always bless this kind person below with peace, love and happiness”, with your profile picture attached below, and send by your friend via
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The first half of 2011 was the busiest period of malware to date as increasingly sophisticated hackers set their sights on mobile devices, particularly those using Google‘s Android operating system, according to a new report. In a report released Tuesday, the cyber-security firm McAfee said malware jumped 22 percent in the first half of this
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