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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.

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.

German banks have not been in the focus of phishers lately, because phishing for German online banking log-in details only is no real use for the fraudsters – the transactions are widely secured by two-way-authentication – attackers usually attemp to harm online banking users by the help of…

If the infected machines are not cleaned up, their users will experience a sudden disruption of services on 9 July 2012!

While the author of the popular SpyEye banking Trojan seems to have disappeared and the development of the core Trojan has stalled, it is still widely used by cybercriminals around the world. And as SpyEye contains a plugin system, botnet operators are still able to extend its functionality.