If you’ve decided that it’s a good idea to take the plunge with a malware removal tool, there’s probably one question that immediately occurs: will a free app give you good enough protection against all the different (and ever-growing) strains of malware out there? Let’s dive into the key issues you should consider here, before […]
There are several short-term methods that can mitigate the Trojan Source attack that abuses Unicode to inject malicious backdoors in source, according to experts. The new attack method, identified by University of Cambridge researchers, tricks compilers into reading hidden Unicode characters and generating binaries with extra instructions and backdoors that the developer or security analyst […]
Cybersecurity researchers disclosed details of what they say is the “largest botnet” observed in the wild in the last six years, infecting over 1.6 million devices primarily located in China, with the goal of launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and inserting advertisements into HTTP websites visited by unsuspecting users. Qihoo 360’s Netlab security team dubbed […]
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