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Millions of LinkedIn passwords reportedly leaked – take action NOW

06

Jun

2012

Although not yet confirmed by the business-networking website, it is being widely speculated that over six million passwords belonging to LinkedIn users have been compromised.A file containing 6,458,020 SHA-1 unsalted password hashes has been posted on the internet, and hackers are working together to crack them. Although the data which has been released so far […]

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SpyEye living up to its name

22

May

2012

Recently, we came across an interesting SpyEye build. It uses well-known spying capabilities of SpyEye like a form grabber, a screenshot sender and an RDP server which allows the criminals to fully remote control the victim’s computer. But it also contains a new plugin called "flashcamcontrol". Using this plugin, the Trojan is able to stream […]

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Fake anti-virus disguises used by Android malware

16

May

2012

The Android malware threat is growing.As financially-motivated cybercriminals realise there’s a real opportunity to make money, so we are seeing more attacks created and distributed which target Android devices.And it’s no surprise to see similar social engineering tricks that have worked on other operating systems in the past also being used on the Android platform.Like […]

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