Explosions at Boston Marathon inspire cyber attackers
The bomb explosions during the famous marathon in Boston have shocked people around the globe – it is still unclear who is behind them and cyber attackers are shamelessly exploiting this fact. They promise news about the events but transmit malware to unsuspecting users!
A different kind of contact: malware attack instead of an online business card
Most users think that spam emails are mainly used for phishing attacks. That is a fairly reasonable assumption, however, the number of malware attacks initiated using emails is also on the rise. In a recent example of this, attackers used fake LinkedIn contact requests to lure their victims to…
Happy New Malware Year
Every holiday season, almost nothing feels better than giving someone you care about the one gift he or she truly wanted. We all are more than happy to enjoy a couple of days off but it seems as if the bad guys were using these days to dig up exploit possibilities and other bugs inside the software…
Make updates! Restart your computer!
After years of insisting on the importance of updating and patching, most people know by now that it is wise to perform updates. Unfortunately, many people tend to think about the operating system updates only. They neglect so-called third party software, such as Adobe PDF, Adobe Flash and Oracle…
IE 0-Day exploit found "in the wild"
Attackers are actively using a modified version of the PoC of the newly discovered flaw in the Internet Explorer (IE) to infect Internet users on a broad scale.
The New Java 0-Day Exploit Actively Endangers Web Surfers
We have discovered the exploit on several websites and traced its tracks. One of the sites on which we found it belongs to an Albanian TV station.
CVE-2012-4681 – A Java 0-day is going to hit big time
It is only 48 hours ago that media started reporting about the newly discovered 0-day in Oracle Java version 7. Now we have discovered the first Blackhole exploit kits using this exploit to harm users! And we’re just getting started.
Homepages of several famous European football clubs hacked
Bang on time with the beginning of this year’s football event! An attacker seemingly sympathizing with various Anonymous operations gloats about hacking football related websites. He announced several hacks of this kind – his last post of leaked data: not older than two days.
Three important AV industry events in a row
The month May has always been dedicated to several traditionally important security industry events of the year. G Data is always present at these events and was playing a very important role this time.
The good and the bad about AV multi scanner services
Online AV multi scanners are used quite often these days. However, not every user is aware of these sites and what their possibilities and limits are. Using the public online multi scanner services can be useful, but the analysis results don't allow straightforward conclusions.
Karsten Hahn
Virus Analyst
Tim Berghoff
Security Evangelist
