Malware Writers Hack CA's Site
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The security vendor has fixed the damage, but the site briefly redirected visitors to a malicious site in China.
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Malicious hackers tout a site with an strip show download to entice victims to download malware.
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Easy-peasy-sleazy: A new piece of PHP code making the malware rounds can install a phishing site on a compromised server in about two minutes.
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An attack combining malicious codes on Web sites and end-user laziness could compromise millions of routers still configured with their out-of-the-box defaults.
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Times must be getting tough for computer virus writers.
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In a twist, security researchers have discovered a group of hackers who are exploiting a new category of victims -- aspiring Internet scammers.A Moroccan group called &quot;Mr. Brain&quot; is offering free phishing kits on a Web site hosted in France, said Paul Mutton, Internet services developer at Netcraft, a security company in Bath, England.The software packages make it easy to quickly set up a fraudulent Web site mimicking a known brand in order to trick people into divulging credit card details or bank account numbers. Templates for spam e-mail are also included, targeting brands such as Bank of America, eBay, PayPal, and HSBC.Mr. Brain&#39;s Web site lists the kits and what kind of details each one is capable of collecting, such as usernames, passwords or Social Security numbers. Netcraft posted screenshots on its Web site.But what the aspiring scammer doesn&#39;t know is that the phishing kits are designed to send any sensitive information that&#39;s collected back to e-mail accounts controlled by Mr. Brain, Mutton said.&quot;Obviously, that&#39;s why they are offering this stuff for free,&quot; Mutton said. &quot;I was impressed by it.&quot;Mr. Brain hides the special e-mail function in a blend of PHP scripts, one of which is encrypted, Mutton said. Just in case someone decrypts it, Mr. Brain has written at the top of the file &quot;Don&#39;t need to change anything here. Created by Mr. Brain Morocco Team.&quot;The scheme seems to be targeted at new phishers, Mutton said. Mr. Brain benefits since other wannabe scammers shoulder the cost and risk of finding an ISP (Internet Service Provider) to host the phishing site, Mutton said.&quot;Essentially, they&#39;re exploiting all these novice phishers -- basically getting them to do all the hard work,&quot; Mutton said.It&#39;s difficult to tell without further research how many of the free phishing kits linked with this latest scam are live on the Internet, but Mutton said Netcraft noticed one earlier this month targeting Bank of America.&quot;Clearly, these are actively being used in phishing attacks,&quot; Mutton said.
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Honeypot project shows more than adult sites contain malicious threats.
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Malicious hackers post poisoned entries to blogs in a bid to infect visitor's PCs.
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Malicious hackers have once again compromised The SCO Groupâs website, the second time in as many days. The messages on the website appear to mock the companyâs ownership claims over various parts of the Linux operating system.
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The search site's bots find that 1 in 1000 Web pages is infected with malicious drive-by download software.
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Super Bowl host sites can infect visitors with malware.
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Blog: IM directs victims to malicious Web site where they are duped into typing in their password, it then sends itself to the victims' contacts.
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Ziff Davis - Holes in KOffice and RealPlayer allow attackers to take over a user's system.
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Cybercrooks reprogram Dolphin Stadium Web site to load script that would attempt to exploit two Windows security holes.
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A security researcher demonstrates a way to use cross site scripting to remotely spam an internal network printer.
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Shockwave horror Hackers have developed a new ruse that attempts to trick users into downloading malware from a fake Adobe Shockwave Player download site.â¦
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SECURITY EXPERTS MessageLabs say that there is evidence that virus writers are working hand in hand with spammers.