Techno News

20.09.2013
A new stage in the evolution of ransomware
Malwarebytes reports the detection of a new kind of a well-known Trojan-extortionist Reveton. Its distributors found a way to earn money even on computers blocked by malware

20.09.2013
Number of domains registered for phishing attacks has doubled
Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) has published data on the latest research. In the first half of the year 2013 APWG experts have identified 53685 domains involved in phishing attacks. Moreover 12173 of them were initially registered for malign purposes

19.09.2013
Traces of the new Trojan for Mac OS lead to Syrian hackers
A new Trojan distributed online is directed against Mac computers. Malicious software is disguised as a photo of a couple kissing

19.09.2013
One third of users do not think about safety when connecting to public Wi-Fi networks
More than a third of Russian users that regularly connect their devices to public Wi-Fi access points do not take any safety measures. This is the result of a special research conducted around the World for the “Kaspersky Lab” in the summer of 2013

18.09.2013
McAfee presented a rating of «the most dangerous celebrities» 2013
McAfee is not only famous for its anti-virus software. Now is the seventh time that specialists of McAfee make a rating of «the most dangerous celebrities»

17.09.2013
NASA web sites hacked by mistake
Brazilian hacker group attacked 14 web sites belonging to The National Aeronautics and Space Administration of USA (NASA). It is reported that hackers did not gain access to the information relating to any American Space programs

16.09.2013
Dropbox «peeps» into uploaded documents
Service Dropbox that offers users the ability of cloud storage as it turns out does not limit itself to be only data storage. Some of the uploaded to Dropbox documents are soon opened without the knowledge of their owner

13.09.2013
Hackers have stolen data of 2 million users of Vodafone Germany
German branch of the UK's largest mobile operator Vodafone reported a hacker attack as a result of which cyber criminals managed to gain access to personal data of 2 million users

13.09.2013
«Passwords are dead»
Heather Adkins, a senior manager of Google's department of information security, when giving a speech on the TechCrunch Disrupt conference said that the era of Internet-startups, that could rely on password security has come to an end. “Passwords are dead”, – she said flatly

11.09.2013
New iPhones became the bait in the phishing attack
Organizers of phishing attacks traditionally use any major worldwide event as bait – when it is a subject of an email it attracts more attention and increases the chances that gullible user will be interested in the email

10.09.2013
Hackers are willing to celebrate the anniversary of 9/11
The hacker group AnonGhost assumingly supported by Syrian authorities is planning to carry out several large-scale cyber attacks this Wednesday “celebrating” this way the anniversary of terrorist attack on the USA

09.09.2013
GTA V on torrent-trackers: there is no such thing as free lunch
The world premier of one of the most waited-for games of the season, GTA V, a continuation of the most popular series Grand Theft Auto, is scheduled on September, 17

06.09.2013
Minus one: “Kaspersky Laboratory” specialists helped to arrest a cyber criminal
In the end of August Sredneakhtubinsky district court of Volgogradsky region condemned a 24-year old Azamat Verbitsky who had sold malware software directed on stealing personal information and password-coding info for banking systems access

06.09.2013
Anonymous Internet Users number has grown for 6 times during the month
Tor project (anonymous routing network) is living through a fantastic splash of popularity. The network helps to secure all the passed and received through Internet from eavesdropping

05.09.2013
Anonymous attacks Azerbaijan
Hackers that declared themselves as Armenian branch of Anonymous group hacked networks of the largest Azerbaijani energy company «Azerenergy». The amount of information stolen by them during the attack was about 7 gigabytes

05.09.2013
USA passed sentence to two Rumanian hackers
New Hampshire state district court condemned to prison sentence two Rumanian citizens accused for multiple computer frauds in the USA

04.09.2013
Mobile Trojans are now distributed through third-party mobile botnets
Experts from «Kaspersky Lab» for the first time have recorded a new way of spreading mobile Trojans that is through mobile botnets created on the basis of other malware

04.09.2013
Botnet «Citadel» returns
Trend Micro announces the resumption of activity of infamous botnet “Citadel”. According to the researchers no less than 9 IP-addresses, registered mainly in Europe and the USA are now used as the command servers of “zombi-net”

03.09.2013
Indian researcher has discovered a critical vulnerability of Facebook
An Indian Arul Kumar in his blog described an error of Facebook that allows a hacker to delete any photos from the social network. This vulnerability has been defined as “critical”. It could be used in any browser but it is especially easy to achieve from mobile devices

02.09.2013
Taiwan will create world's first open database of malware
Taiwan National Center for High-Performance Computing (NCHC) is working on creation of worldwide database of malware. It will become the first open source of such information in the world: to gain access it is necessary to file the request by registering on the website of the project