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Thursday, February 02, 2012

Summarizing Webroot's Threat Blog Posts for January


The following is a brief summary of all of my posts at Webroot's Threat Blog for January, 2012. You can subscribe to my Webroot's Threat Blog RSS Feed or follow me on Twitter:

01. Millions of harvested emails offered for sale
02. Email hacking for hire going mainstream
03. Mass SQL injection attack affects over 200,000 URLs
04. A peek inside the PickPocket Botnet
05. A peek inside the Cythosia v2 DDoS Bot
06. Google announces new anti-malware features in Chrome
07. Adobe issues a patch for critical security holes in Reader and Acrobat
08. Inside a clickjacking/likejacking scam distribution platform for Facebook
09. Zappos.com hacked, 24 million users affected
10. Inside AnonJDB – a Java based malware distribution platforms for drive-by downloads
11. How malware authors evade antivirus detection
12. A peek inside the Umbra malware loader
13. How phishers launch phishing attacks
14. Researchers intercept a client-side exploits serving malware campaign
15. A peek inside the uBot malware bot
16. Cisco releases ‘Cisco Global Threat Report’ for 4Q11
17. Cybercriminals generate malicious Java applets using DIY tools

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Wednesday, February 01, 2012

Summarizing ZDNet's Zero Day Posts for January


The following is a brief summary of all of my posts at ZDNet's Zero Day for January, 2012. You can subscribe to my personal RSS feed, Zero Day's main feed, or follow me on Twitter:


01. 'Most beautiful' scams proliferate on Facebook
02. Android users hit by scareware scam
03. 'Remove Facebook Timeline' themed scam circulating on Facebook
04. Fake Kim Jong-il video distributing malware
05. Researchers spot pharmaceutical spam campaign using QR Codes
06. Report: Conficker and AutoRun infections proliferating
07. Researchers spot scammers using fake browser plug-ins
08. New variants of premium rate SMS trojan 'RuFraud' detected in the wild
09. Research: Spammers actively harvesting emails from Twitter in real-time
10. DreamHost hacked, mass password-reset issued

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