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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