Downloading ebooks from untrustworthy websites might result in your Amazon account data being compromised, reports one German researcher. According to Benjamin Daniel Mussler, a security flaw allows malicious code to be injected into an ebooks metadata, which will then trigger when the victim opens up their Kindle Library web page.
In recent attacks involving the Angler exploit kit, malicious code was injected directly into running processes instead of being written to the disk, a researcher reported on Sunday.
Ad networks being abused by cybercrininals to deliver malware to unsuspecting users is still an important issue in 2014, as researchers find evidence of malicious code on YouTube advertising service.As the industry of advertising is at the core of the web economy, crooks try to find a way to integrate software designed to compromise computers […]
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