> TODAY'S SUMMARY (68 articles)
Today's cybersecurity landscape highlights several critical threats and developments. The new Hirudo Android malware is particularly concerning, as it replaces legitimate banking apps to steal credentials while evading security measures. Additionally, Microsoft's October Patch Tuesday saw a record 1,413 vulnerabilities addressed, including a zero-day actively exploited in the wild. Researchers also demonstrated the potential dangers of AI, with one team creating a full-chain Chrome exploit in just six days using public AI models. Meanwhile, fake "Meta Careers" pages are being used to phish Facebook and Google logins, emphasizing the ongoing risk of credential theft. Lastly, a crackdown on North Korean IT farms highlights the geopolitical dimensions of cyber threats.
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Porn sites are still the most likely online destinations to be compromised with malware, in spite of increasing attacks on legitimate non-porn websites, according to a report released by security company Commtouch this week.
A former National Security Agency senior executive has been indicted for retaining classified information, obstructing justice and making false statements.
A pair of security researchers have identified a way to use security tools within Internet Explorer 8 to compromise a website. The attack uses cross-site scripting filters implemented in the latest version of the Microsoft browser to execute cross-site scripting attacks on sites that would normally...
A Websense researcher has released a forensics tool designed to identify malicious web content from within the Firefox browser. Called Fireshark, the plug-in was released on Wednesday at the Black Hat security conference by Stephan Chenette, a principal security researcher at Websense.
The website for the open source Apache Web server at Apache.org was compromised this month by a targeted attack, said the Apache Software Foundation, which has provided a detailed blow-by-blow account of the hack.
The latest monthly malware and vulnerability statistics released by Kaspersky Lab claims to show that the exploitation of vulnerability in Internet Explorer was the most significant cybercrime threat during the month of March.
Detailed figures just released by the Ministry of Defence show that the military arm of the government had a total of 347 data loss incidents in 2009, with 71 further losses of confidential information in January plus February of this year alone.
One of the least-reported areas of IT security in recent times is the topic of firewalls but, according to Gabi Reish, head of network security with Check Point, the technology is now into its fifth generation, largely as a result of the rise of the internet.
Brazilian malware writers are making use of a long-available feature within most modern browsers to launch attacks that redirect victims to malicious websites without their knowledge. The feature, known as proxy auto config, is turning up in banking trojans, according to researchers from Kaspersky.
Games console in the workplace pose an increasingly serious threat to enterprise security, according to new research from Sunbelt Software. The anti-malware vendor said that almost 4 in 10 respondents to the survey had no idea about any of the documented threats relating to online console gaming.
Federal agencies are lagging behind in the implementation of the Federal Desktop Core Configuration (FDCC) requirements, according to the US Government Accountability Office.
Web hosting company Network Solutions has deployed a massive fix for a configuration flaw that led to hundreds of WordPress blogs being compromised.
Numbers from IT advocacy group TechServe Alliance show that IT job growth declined month-over-month in March, putting a halt to the uptick the industry has experienced since December of last year.
Infosecurity reviews the week's security news
EviGator has released TAG Examiner, a tool for examining large quantities of image files to recover metadata.
A Manhattan resident was sentenced last week for his part in an international money laundering and data theft scheme that hacked into accounts at brokerage firm Charles Schwab.
The Consumer's Association has launched a publicity campaign against the law firms generating large numbers of copyright actions against alleged internet filesharers, and it appears to have paid off.
A new Windows Mobile game - apparently being offered free of charge - has a nasty surprise hidden inside; a trojan that makes very expensive international phone calls.
RootKitAnalytics has made a tool available for discovering hidden alternate data streams. Called StreamArmor, it is designed to analyze a feature of the Windows file system that allows hidden data to be embedded in files.
Nearly half of US IT professionals surveyed by ISACA said they believe that the security risks of cloud computing outweigh the potential benefits.