Tag Archives: cyber crime

Trojan disguised as Chrome installer discover in the wild

Posted on May 17, 2012 by Prashant

In the past, we have seen how trojans and malware disguised in the form of fake antivirus have been detected and spotted. A latest happening reported by trend-Micro researchers informs of a trojan impersonating as a Google Chrome Installer. It … Continue reading →

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0-Day exploit discovered by hacker in Hotmail

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Prashant

According to a news published at Whitec0de, a critical password reset and setup flaw in Microsoft’s Hotmail was discovered by a hacker hailing from Saudi Arabia. The details of the hack got leaked on an underground forum where the hacking … Continue reading →

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DoS, Mass defacements and now phone bomb!

Posted on April 12, 2012 by Prashant

Hacktivist groups present around have also used popular attacking methodologies and gain access to their targets to mark their presence and protest. We have seen DDOS attacks, mass defacement, making confidential data public. Hacktivist group “TeaMp0isoN” made used a different … Continue reading →

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Mac users getting infected from Flashback trojan

Posted on February 27, 2012 by Prashant

Apple’s Mac OS have always been assumed as safe and secure operating system. But in the last few years, security bugs and trojans have affected mac users and infections have increased tremendously. Mac anti-virus maker Intego is warning about new … Continue reading →

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New worm steals 45,000 Facebook accounts

Posted on January 6, 2012 by Prashant

A new worm has hit Facebook and has stolen 45,000 login credentials from it. The data is believed to have been taken largely from Facebook accounts in the UK and France as reported by Seculert . The worm called Ramnit … Continue reading →

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Indian shopping scene: How safe is your online shopping?

Posted on December 4, 2011 by Prashant

Online shopping has always been on a boom due to various and popular schemes by sellers. Online market enhanced in the mid of 2000 and is now ruling the market at the top now. Security issues with online shopping has … Continue reading →

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Blackberry spam mails flooding in

Posted on October 25, 2011 by Prashant

Spam mails have always been the hot choice of cyber criminals and fraudster gangs. And they are back with something interesting. I was normally checking my inbox, when my eyes got struck on a mail that appeared to be from … Continue reading →

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Cyber criminals fabricates fake news to discredit security researchers

Posted on June 14, 2011 by Prashant

Security researchers have also worked for the betterment and security of netizens. In a news that shocked the online security community, a fake news story claiming F-Secure chief research officer Mikko Hypponen and investigative security journalist Brian Krebs were indicted … Continue reading →

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600 Online scammers raided in Asia

Posted on June 14, 2011 by Prashant

Online scamming and fraud is on a rise these days. In a joint operation amongst law enforcement authorities of south east Asia, nearly 600 people suspected of an international online fraud were raided. The raid nabbed 410 Taiwanese and 181 … Continue reading →

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Hackers actively exploiting Java exploits

Posted on May 13, 2011 by Prashant

Hackers and cyber criminals have been exploiting bugs in popular software like java and adobe in order to succeed in their motive. Since last year, its been relatively seen that hackers are much focused on java exploits and actively exploiting … Continue reading →

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