The web site of the National Broadcasting Company (NBC), NBC.com, is currently compromised, and is redirecting tens of thousands of legitimate users to multiple exploits serving and malware dropping malicious URLs. The campaign appears to have been launched by the same gang of cybercriminals that’s also been recently involved in impersonating Facebook Inc. and Verizon […]
What happened on DeviantART at the weekend? This happened. Click to Enlarge While I’d love to leave it at the analysis above which is stated as being “ERMERGERD HACKERZ”, the antics at the weekend focused on swiping the accounts of DeviantART users who had coughed up for premium functionality. See, along with the removal of […]
The May edition of the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool saw the inclusion of two new malware families: Win32/Unruy and Win32/Dishigy. Let’s dig a bit deeper into Dishigy and the nature of Denial of Service.So, bear with me while I take you back to security 101.A Denial of Service (DoS) attack is a pretty straightforward […]
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