Money mule schemes are on the rise, as the underground community has an oversupply of compromised usernames and passwords from both private and commercial bank accounts.Individuals are targeted directly by emails, social networking sites, and job posting sites. A money mule is a person who transfers money or goods to another country where the perpetrator [...]
16
Jan
Chinese Hackers Exploit IE Vulnerability
A “weaponized” zero-day exploit for a previously undisclosed vulnerability within Internet Explorer(IE) 7 is being used by Chinese hackers to install malware on victims’ computers. The vulnerability is caused by memory corruption that results from an invalid pointer reference whenInternet Explorer handles Dynamic HTML data bindings. The exploit itself is written in JavaScriptand is intended [...]
07
Jan
Conficker Estimated To Have Infected Over 5 Million Computers Worldwide
Conficker is a computer worm that originally surfaced in October 2008 and targets the MicrosoftWindows operating system. The worm exploits a previously patched vulnerability in the WindowsServer service used by Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003,Windows Server 2008, Windows 7 Beta, and Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta. The worm uses a variety [...]