Japan’s Finance Ministry recently discovered a data-leaking Trojan on its computers that has been running for almost two years. During a security sweep of their network infrastructure, a third-party security firm found the Trojan and notified the institution. Of the 2,000 computers checked, 123 were infected with the Trojan that appeared to be present since January 2010. The Finance Ministry said no taxpaye...

An SMS Trojan was spotted in the Google Play marketplace, distributed via a series of wallpaper apps that may look legitimate at first glance but connect to a Dropbox account to download an additional package named "Activator.apk". On download, the package notifies the user it’s about to install and that “services that cost you money” are about to be used. Although it’s a one-time-only process, the "Activat...

A bogus Facebook video of a daughter who got busted on webcam strikes users with a harmful Trojan. The malware can grab sensitive information and send it to a remote machine. Sick of promoting the “dad catches daughter on webcam” scam in English, cyber-crooks went to scammers’ school this summer, pulled an overnight “Omlette du fromage”, and translated the old masquerade into German and Serbian. If German s...

Android malware usually involves data-stealing Trojans or other malicious software that attempts to steal personal information or money. But we’ve encountered an interesting new threat that’s not bent on collecting data or even act covertly for that matter. Detected as Android.Trojan.Stamper.A, its purpose is to overwrite every image on your device with a predefined sample chosen by the attacker. We have en...

Malware is starting to take advantage of LinkedIn’s popularity, with bogus e-mails allegedly coming from the professional social network. Some of the scams that have become antiquated on Facebook are now spreading on LinkedIn, luring users to install malicious attachments on their computers. The Trojan that sneaks into LinkedIn spam messages injects an invisible iframe into a webpage and then redirects you ...

In 2010, the world stopped spinning for a moment, as evidence of a highly complex piece of malware hitting a nuclear research facility in Iran started to emerge. Two years later, the discovery of another e-threat shows that the team behind Stuxnet and Duqu had another offspring that was even more complex and persistent. The e-threat - dubbed Trojan.Flamer.A – was also isolated in Iran earlier in May. Prelim...

Attackers publish legit applications which are swapped with malware after they get positive ratings...

Hijacked applications rogue, power-saving patches and pirated versions of popular commercial software for Android account for the vast majority of security incidents, Bitdefender analysis reveals...

Message advertising a Strong Password Generator actually delivers a Trojan...

Rootkit.Duqu.A is the current star in the world of malware but, as history shows, that fame will be short-lived. Just like fashion models, modern malware has a lifespan in the media eye of a couple of weeks to a couple of months, tops. They then fade into the shadow of more dangerous and sophisticated tools....