Displaying items by tag: Trojan

Users are downloading a Hummer trojan infected app thinking they will get access to YouTube and other Google Services but it secretly roots the Android device, gaining admin-level access. It has infected well over 1 billion devices making it the number one trojan in the Android world.

The aim of a new Trojan called T9000 is to collect and forward information about Skype users on Windows.

Symantec reports the Android.Bankosy financial Trojan malware can now steal passwords from voice call-based two-factor authentication.

Researchers at Symantec say they have discovered a form of malware that attacks MySQL on Windows servers, using them to launch distributed denial of service attacks.

If you play on-line, poker on a Windows device watch out for Odlanor – spyware that will photograph your card hand and cheat you out of occasionally winning.

According to a security vendor, apps containing a capcha-evading Trojan have found their way into Google Play.

A new report by Flexera Software and IDC should have system administrators trembling.

A friend has had an annoying Safari browser based issue where clicking a link opens a separate ad tab.  This is a relatively new Trojan malware that cleverly obfuscates the most useful page on getting rid of it.

It wasn’t just government and business leaders getting together at the G20 summit, but protesters and ‘threat actors’ targeting protesters with a malware-laden email for a ‘rally for Tibet’.

It's not a new threat, but security vendor Bitdefender is warning Mac users about the Genieo adware packaged with certain free software.

Security vendor ESET has warned Android users of a new Android Trojan spreading via Facebook pages.

Security researchers at Kaspersky Lab have uncovered Android trojan, described as the "most sophisticated" mobile malware yet.

Dr Web, a Russian AV software company, says it has spotted a piece of malware that - unusually - targets Linux and Mac OS X.

Mac security specialist Intego says it has found a new Mac Trojan, which it has dubbed OSX/Crisis.

While Mac users have been worrying about the Sabpab malware that exploits the same Java vulnerability that was used by Flashback.K, it turns out that a version exploiting an old Word vulnerability has been circulating since February.

A Russian security software developer has estimated that the Flashback trojan has infected more than 550,000 Macs, and more than 32,000 of them are in Australia.

A 'million dollar' Android botnet has been created, security vendor Symantec has warned.

Increasingly sophisticated financial malware such as the Carberp Trojan is becoming more and more difficult to detect and eliminate, warns researchers at Context Information Security. Designed to steal log-in and account information and harvest credentials for email and social-networking sites, Carberp, like its more well know predecessors Zeus and Spyeye, infects machines through malicious files such as PDFs and Excel documents or drive-by downloads.

In a recent interview, iTWire asked Jon Callas, currently CTO at Entrust his thoughts on the recent Duqu malware and how closely it is related to Stuxnet.

Trojanised versions of legitimate Mac software steal processing power as well as information.