Software

New Flashback Trojan Variant Doesn’t Need A Password To Infect Your Mac

The Flashback Trojan is proving to be a very agile bit of code. It’s mutated several times since it was initially discovered last year, and its newest iteration will let itself onto your system with or without your permission.


March 20, 2012
Computing

Duqu Framework’s Mystery Language Identified As Custom C

When Kaspersky Labs revealed its analysis of the Duqu Trojan earlier this month they were stumped by a block of code that appeared to be a previously unseen programming language. With the help of the internet, Kaspersky’s identified the code, not as a new computer language but rather an old one.


March 9, 2012
Software

Whoever Wrote The Duqu Trojan’s Framework Wrote It In An Unknown Programming Language

The Duqu Trojan is one nasty piece of code, rivaled in sophistication only by its relative, the Stuxnet Worm. A new analysis of the Trojan, however, has revealed just how advanced it really is.


November 1, 2011
Software

New Mac Trojan Earns Other People’s Bitcoins

Odd, I could have sworn Bitcoin was on the fast track towards technological irrelevance. So why is this new Mac malware harnessing infected GPUs to mine the digital dollars?


October 27, 2011
Online

Another Day, Another Mac Trojan On The Loose

The ESNET security company is reporting that the Tsunami Trojan originally developed for Linux systems has been ported to OSX. The Trojan is designed to hijack an infected system and use its network connection in DDoS attacks or to automatically download more malware. More details are available at MacWorld.


October 21, 2011
Software

This New Trojan Disables Your Mac’s Auto-Updates

The original iteration of the Flashback Trojan was a nasty little bugger, quietly shipping your Mac’s details off to a remote server. This newly discovered variant is even worse.


October 12, 2011
Online

German States Used Malware To Spy On Their Citizens

It sounds like the plot of a mid-tier thriller, but it actually happened: German governments have been deploying state-sponsored malware to spy on its citizens… for two years. And the trojan they used is serious business.


June 18, 2011
Online

There’s A Virus That Will Steal All Your Bitcoins

If you’re an enthusiast of both the Bitcoin currency and the Windows platform, you’ll want to beware: there’s a Bitcoin-specific trojan virus out there that will scan your computer for the unencypted wallet file and acquire your hard-earned digital capital.


February 7, 2011
Online

Fake Emails From The White House Tricked UK Government Staff

The UK’s foreign secretary has revealed that the Zeus data-stealing trojan was found installed on computers belonging to government employees, after they clicked on links contained within fake emails from the White House.


August 21, 2010
Computing

Malware Blamed For Disastrous Plane Crash

154 lives were lost when Spanair flight 5022 crashed moments after taking off from Madrid-Barajas International Airport in 2008. Now documents from an investigation into the incident are showing that a malware infection may have been to blame.