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:
Sony PlayStation®Network under attack
Pure entertainment and manifold possibilities to enjoy yourself - that is what Sony PlayStation® Network stands for. There are tons of games and movies available, only one click away and easily ordered by credit card. But suddenly, the colorful world stopped turning.
It never stays quiet on the internet: The Lizamoon attack, the update problem?
It never stays quiet on the internet and new attacks or malware are seen every day. The last week however we saw an interesting mass SQL injection attack, referred to as Lizamoon, which was spreading and has infected several millions of URLs last week (March 29 until April 4). Even after a week,…
G Data Security Evangelist Eddy Willems speaks about the risks of social media and the cloud at the VB Conference
G Data’s Security Evangelist Eddy Willems will speak at this year’s Virus Bulletin Conference in Vancouver. Alongside Righard Zwienenberg, Chief Research Officer at Norman ASA, Willems will be explaining the security risks that companies often don’t even think about: the (un)intentional harm…
Newly discovered flaw affects all recent Java versions on Windows
Two researchers released information on a vulnerability in Sun's Java Runtime Environment that could give attackers a new point of attack to perform drive-by-downloads and compromise targeted clients on all current versions of Windows operating systems and several popular browsers.
IE6/7 zero-day exploit code heading for the masses
The Israeli hacker Moshe Ben Abu published exploit code that takes advantage of a vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6/7 not 24 hours after Microsoft gave out Security Advisory 981374. Attackers are expected to adopt the exploit and use it in massive attacks targeting a broader audience.
The mean missing Favicon
We came across an interesting and widespread campaign, which infects computers by drive-by-download. The technique seems to be simple but sneaky: The attackers intrude into a web server and infect the content of the locally stored 404 error page. In the detected examples, the web pages had no…
Karsten Hahn
Principal Malware Researcher
Tim Berghoff
Security Evangelist
