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.
Update: DNSChanger - it's not over yet
If the infected machines are not cleaned up, their users will experience a sudden disruption of services on 9 July 2012!
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.
Hacked Wordpress pages reveal potential time bomb
The G Data SecurityLabs discovered code injections into Wordpress pages, which are potentially dangerous. Attackers managed to inject code and convert the websites into “zombie” websites, which can be controlled from afar.
Bug bounty initiatives: a summer approach against cyberthreats?
The summer season has always been a mixture of holidays and launching new initiatives against cyberthreats if you look back at the past months.
The top 10 threats in June 2011
This month’s top 10 again shows the prevalence of attacks against PC users using Java. 50% of the Top 10 attacks tried to intrude the computers exploiting vulnerabilities that have already been fixed with an update, provided by Oracle since March 2010.
Mobile and in-the-cloud OSes: Moving to the cloud, moving to different threats?
Lots of companies and home users “have their head in the clouds” moving their services, servers and data to the cloud without realizing they are using the cloud since a decade already and they have never given any thought about security of using services from the cloud. Even now, with financial…
Ghosts remain: Osama Bin Laden may be haunting your PC
We have reported numerous times about the dangers that lure around as soon as any kind of special holiday is around or a hot topic floods the news. And, as expected: Recently, there has been various malware connected to Osama Bin Laden. Let's have a look at two examples:
Karsten Hahn
Virus Analyst
Tim Berghoff
Security Evangelist
