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  Banking malware monitors victims by hijacking webcams and microphones, researchers say

  A new variant of SpyEye malware allows cybercriminals to monitor potential bank fraud victims by hijacking their webcams and microphones, according to security researchers from antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab.

  By Lucian Constantin | 23 May, 2012 02:07

  Tags: spyware, security, scams, malware, kaspersky lab, Identity fraud / theft, fraud, data protection, data breach, Access control and authentication

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  Cross-browser worm spreads via Facebook, security experts warn

  Malware writers have used Crossrider, a cross-browser extension development framework, to build a click-fraud worm that spreads on Facebook, security researchers from antivirus firm Kaspersky Lab said on Monday.

  By Lucian Constantin | 22 May, 2012 02:34

  Tags: software, security, online safety, malware, kaspersky lab, Facebook, browsers, applications

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  VMware downplays leaks of source code

  Virtualization software vendor VMware today downplayed the seriousness of a source code leak involving the company's ESX hypervisor technology.

  By Jaikumar Vijayan | 26 April, 2012 08:17

  Tags: App Security, Cybercrime and Hacking, kaspersky lab, Pastebin, Virtualization, VMware

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  Flashback botnet not shrinking, huge numbers of Macs still infected

  Contrary to reports by several security companies, the Flashback botnet is not shrinking, the Russian antivirus firm that first reported the massive infection three weeks ago claimed today.

  By Gregg Keizer | 21 April, 2012 06:31

  Tags: Apple, kaspersky lab, Mac OS, Malware and Vulnerabilities, operating systems, security, software, symantec

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  Twitter spam campaign infects users with fake antivirus programs

  A large spam campaign observed on Twitter during the last couple of days directed users to malicious websites that exploited vulnerabilities in browser plug-ins to infect their computers with rogue antivirus programs, according to security researchers from antivirus firm Kaspersky Lab.

  By Lucian Constantin | 20 April, 2012 02:06

  Tags: Exploits / vulnerabilities, kaspersky lab, malware, online safety, scams, security, twitter

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  Flashback botnet infects 41,600 Australian Macs

  The Flashback botnet has affected 41,600 Mac computers in Australia, making it the fourth most infected country in the world, according to research from Kaspersky Lab.

  By Hamish Barwick | 12 April, 2012 12:09

  Tags: apple mac, flashback, kaspersky lab, security

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  Kaspersky launches free Flashback removal tool and website to check for infections

  Antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab has launched a free removal tool for the Flashback Mac OS X malware and a website where users can check whether their computers are infected with it.

  By Lucian Constantin | 11 April, 2012 03:39

  Tags: antivirus, kaspersky lab, security

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  Duqu malware resurfaces after five-month holiday

  Duqu, the malware that has been compared to 2010's notorious Stuxnet, is back, security researchers said today.

  By Gregg Keizer | 29 March, 2012 07:23

  Tags: Cybercrime and Hacking, kaspersky lab, Malware and Vulnerabilities, security, symantec

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  International security team shoots down second Hlux/Kelihos botnet

  A team of security experts cooperating globally say they've disabled a large botnet of about 110,000 remotely controlled infected machines dubbed HLux.B/Kelihos.B by interfering in its peer-to-peer connections in a "poisoning" process to sinkhole them, cutting off the botnet's central control point.

  By Ellen Messmer | 29 March, 2012 03:23

  Tags: botnet, dell, Hlux.B; Kelishos, Intel, kaspersky lab, Microsoft, network security, security, Wide Area Network

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  Security firms disable the second Kelihos botnet

  A group of malware experts from security companies Kaspersky Lab, CrowdStrike, Dell SecureWorks and the Honeynet Project, have worked together to disable the second version of the Kelihos botnet, which is significantly bigger than the one shut down by Microsoft and its partners in September 2011.

  By Lucian Constantin | 29 March, 2012 02:43

  Tags: CrowdStrike, Dell SecureWorks, Honeynet Project, kaspersky lab, malware, security

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  Duqu trojan built by 'old school' programmers, Kaspersky says

  The use of a little used programming language to create part of the the Duqu trojan, an espionage tool that last year attracted lots of attention for its many Stuxnet-like features, indicates that it may have been written by experienced, old school programmers, a security researcher at Kaspersky Labs said Monday.

  By Jaikumar Vijayan | 20 March, 2012 07:20

  Tags: Cybercrime and Hacking, kaspersky lab, Malware and Vulnerabilities, Microsoft, security

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  Stolen encryption key the source of compromised certificate problem, Symantec says

  When Kaspersky Lab last week spotted code-signed Trojan malware dubbed Mediyes that had been signed with a digital certificate owned by Swiss firm Conpavi AG and issued by Symantec, it touched off a hunt to determine the source of the problem.

  By Ellen Messmer | 20 March, 2012 01:24

  Tags: anti-malware, Conpavi, kaspersky lab, security, symantec, VeriSign

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  Java-based Web attack installs hard-to-detect malware in RAM

  A hard-to-detect piece of malware that doesn't create any files on the affected systems was dropped onto the computers of visitors to popular news sites in Russia in a drive-by download attack, according to security researchers from antivirus firm Kaspersky Lab.

  By Lucian Constantin | 19 March, 2012 23:30

  Tags: antivirus, Exploits / vulnerabilities, intrusion, kaspersky lab, online safety, security

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  Kaspersky Lab spots malware signed with stolen digital certificate

  Security firm Kaspersky Lab Thursday said it's identified a malicious program that appears to make use of a compromised Symantec VeriSign digital certificate issued to Conpavi AG, which is known to work with Swiss government agencies. Kaspersky says it has asked Symantec VeriSign to revoke the compromised certificates.

  By Ellen Messmer | 16 March, 2012 07:32

  Tags: anti-malware, Digital Certificate, kaspersky, kaspersky lab, Mediyes malware, security, symantec, Symantec VeriSign;, VeriSign

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  Researchers can't identify programming language used in Duqu, ask for help

  Malware experts from Kaspersky Lab have asked the programming community for help identifying the programming language, compiler or framework that was used to write an important part of the Duqu Trojan, in the hope that it could reveal clues about who created it or why.

  By Lucian Constantin | 09 March, 2012 04:41

  Tags: application development, kaspersky lab, malware, security, software