Hacked Info

Symantec cop released a sample of the dirtiest websites: 17ebook.com, aladel.net, bpwhamburgorchardpark.org, clicnews.com, dfwdiesel.net, divineenterprises.net, fantasticfilms.ru, gardensrestaurantandcatering.com, ginedis.com, gncr.org, hdvideoforums.org, hihanin.com, kingfamilyphotoalbum.com, likaraoke.com, mactep.org, magic4you.nu, marbling.pe.kr, nacjalneg.info, pronline.ru, purplehoodie.com, qsng.cn seksburada.net, sportsmansclub.net, stock888.cn, tathli.com, teamclouds.com, texaswhitetailfever.com, wadefamilytree.org, xnescat.info, and yt118.com . The infected sites had on average 18,000 threats and 40 per cent of the [...]

The big brothers of the technology business – McAfee, Symantec,  Microsoft, AVG Technologies, Trend Micro and their likes – have joined forces to fight the onslaught of hacking and malware that creeps into worldwide systems. The Industry Connections Security Group (ICSG) has been formed as a wing of the IEEE. Malware is a program that [...]

TinyURL, Bit.ly, Cli.ng… there are numerous URL shortening services out there, which gives us cute shiny short URL which we can post to tweets, blogs and websites. But this shiny short URL often takes us to malicious websites. The URL masking makes the users difficult to know if they’re clicking on a trustworthy link, or [...]

The Malware that captures account numbers and PINs from the ATM transaction logs and then delivers it to the thief on a receipt printed from the machine in an encrypted format or to a storage device inserted in the card reader has been found from windows XP based automatic teller machines in Russia and Ukraine. [...]

Malware authors are using IP tracking methods to deliver the latest variant of malware. It’s reported that the malware Waledec sends localized news to the victims using GeoIP technologies. The malware lure the user by sending news about recent terror attacks in their city and other heavily localized news. Once infected with the malware the [...]

Scareware that tricks the users to download fake anti virus software’s is taking advantage of the Youtube comments. The attack is similar to one happened at Digg. Porn hunters often feel into these traps and download malicious video plug-in to their machine. The program pretends to scan the computer for virus or malware and reports [...]

Google trend is now a day the hot spot for malware writers. They start their “campaign” by looking at the hot trends on the day or month and craft the special page designed for that query. Google picks up the page and quickly post it in top 10. High ranking relevant pages are moved down [...]

Google the search engine giant flagged the entire internet as malware between 6:30 a.m. PST and 7:25 a.m. PST on Jan 31st. Every websites linked from Google search ended by in malware warning “This site may harm your computer”. Government websites, CNN, Associated press all were reported as malware site. It could be some glitch [...]

The term “Social Engineering” sounds like a serious academic subject on reforming a wayward society! Alas, far from the truth, it is pure and simple trickery, a con job. The attacker uses his social skills to take advantage on the human tendency to trust someone at his words. He/she can pretend to be a legitimate official, a person of authority, a helpdesk assistant or a new employee trying to learn his ropes. The purpose of all these deceptions are to extract sensitive personal or company information, such as the social security number, credit card details, email address, login name and password, company financial data, client details, marketing plan, organizational structure or a host of other details, all with the intent of defrauding.

One more malware have been spotted for the Apple Mac machine. This time Trojan.iServices.B which gets into the system, open the backdoor in Mac machines and connect them to a zombie network. This malware is distributed through pirated copies Adobe Photoshop CS4 available at warez channel. Few days back another malware of the same type [...]