Today I got 4 Bank of India phishing emails. As I had written a blog earlier the phishing attack on Bank of India is getting repeated every few days. Out of the 4 phishing attack emails that I received 3 were in English language but the fourth email was in local language Hindi. This is […]
As Abhijit Kulkarni yesterday blogged about the .HLP vulnerability in Windows XP. See details below in his blog. I observed that Microsoft has rated this vulnerability as “Medium risk” as it needs user intervention. We are monitoring for any malicious exploit of this vulnerability being made by any malware. I see no reason why this […]
I came across multiple emails in my inbox which were talking about my Paypal account being blocked. The mails had a subject line as “Your Papal account is suspended”. I immediately sensed it as phishing email. As earlier I had received emails indicating about payments that I made using Paypal which were phishing emails and […]
Microsoft’s security team is investigating a security vulnerability reported at https://isec.pl/ by Maurycy Prodeus. The vulnerability is observed on operating system older than Windows Vista (i.e. Windows XP). In this, the attacker hosting a malicious website can remotely run arbitrary code by convincing the user to press the computer’s F1 key in response to a […]
Mariposa botnet which has grown much stronger over last six months was posing a big challenge for security software developers. The botnet which was first observed in April-May 2009 has shown significant traffic growth over last six months indicating substantial number of compromised computers. The botnet was quite actively managed by these hackers who use […]
Microsoft has warned Windows users to be cautious against a rogueware (fake software) which calls itself Security Essentials 2010 as opposed to Microsoft Security Essentials which is a genuine security product from Microsoft. Security essentials 2010 installs a fake virus scanner on your machine and blocks some processes. It also blocks access to the websites […]
One has to be very careful when using search engine for looking for information or news on the latest hot topics. There are more chances of getting malware infection after visiting the websites listed in the results. Malware authors are creating more and more webpages which are loaded with newly created malwares, fake softwares, roguewares. […]
Since couple of weeks back Microsoft has been working on secret Operation B49 to wipe out Waledac botnet. Waledac is one of the largest botnets active and having major presence in US and European countries. This botnet is believed to be actively sending spam messages and had capacity to send billions of spam mails per […]
Computer scientists at Rutgers University have demonstrated that rootkits (a familiar threat on PCs) can now attack your smartphones or upcoming tablet computers (like iPad). Vinod Ganapathy, professor at Rutgers University in New Jersey says “Smart phones are essentially becoming regular computers. They run the same class of operating systems as desktop and laptop computers, […]
Google recently launched Google Buzz had to roll back the automatic implementation of the service to its users after strong protest from its users. Google Buzz is nice add on service to all GMail users that helps add social features to their account. Buzz tries to make the social interaction of its users more live […]