Customers of an Australian recruitment firm have been targeted with resumes that are booby-trapped with a backdoor trojan.
A hacker has created a way of bypassing security measures in the Symbian operating system that block malware.
A US-based anti-spyware company has registered the ".com.au.com" domain name, which experts fear could be used by cybercriminals to create more convincing phishing attacks.
A banking trojan designed to intercept Australian customers' authentication details has been discovered. It can circumvent two-factor authentication and will force-feed 600 porn sites to infected PCs, according to security researchers.
Mac users are being warned downloading a "free" rogue security application, MacSweeper, which guarantees to find a virus on Macs it is installed on will only lead to a lighter wallet.
A socially engineered e-mail, which contains a Trojan file that exploits a zero-day vulnerability and then hides behind a rootkit, might be the perfect attack and impossible to defend against.
Discerning thumbs for BlackBerry users are essential to keep away a new threat which can compromise the security of the popular smartphone. Well that's according to Research In Motion's (RIM) Ian Robertson, senior manager of security and research.
It took help from three security experts, Citibank's spokesperson, dozens of e-mails and almost a full working day of investigation to confirm that an e-mail I had seen from Citibank was not actually a clever phishing attempt.
The profit motive of cybercriminals has caused the total number of known malware threats to double from 250,000 to 500,000 in just one year. "Essentially, in one year we did 20 years of work," says F-Secure's senior security specialist, Patrik Runald.
Even if you follow the security advice of your bank, banking trojans can undermine efforts to prevent information falling into the wrong hands when customers do their banking online, says F-Secure's senior security specialist, Patrik Runald.
Malware for Apple iPhones are yet to be discovered, but F-Secure's senior security specialist, Patrik Runald reckons they are almost certain to appear in the near future.
Despite improvements to the security of Symbian's third edition of its operating system, the Series 60, spyware still poses a major threat to mobile phone security, says F-Secure's senior security specialist, Patrik Runald.
As more applications are built for smart phones, security experts predict professional criminals will turn their attention to mobile malware. ZDNet talks with F-Secure's senior security expert, Patrik Runald about improvements to mobile phone security as a result of past mistakes.
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