Doctor Web has said that a hacker-botnet built with the Win32.Rmnet.12 Trojan had already surpassed 1m contaminated hosts by April 2012. Lately, analysts at the company observed that the virus disseminated in its modified form that was dubbed Win32.Rmnet.16.
Scam e-mails that ask for recipients' private bank information have been found emanating continuously from Nigeria, which mention the names of Eddie Calvo the Governor and Eduardo G. Camacho a reputable businessman, published mvguam.com dated May 16, 2012.
Amnesty International Website Compromised to Produce Malware
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Monday, 21 May 2012 11:00
The upholder of human rights, Amnesty International reportedly had its United Kingdom website under the control of hackers between May 7 and 9, 2012 so it could be manipulated for installing malicious software on the computers that accessed the site. Websense the Web security company reported this.
Cyber-criminals’ Latest Strategy is Application-Based
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Monday, 21 May 2012 11:00
Security specialists from BitDefender the security company claim that Internauts quite well know that several scams exist that tout products and techniques apparently to assist them towards earning income without difficulty. But currently, in a new strategy, cyber-criminals have begun concentrating on ruses, which are application-based.
A malware scam, which attempts at infecting twice, for truly ensuring that potential victims are compromised, is doing the rounds and which investigators from F-Secure, a security company, have identified.
