ICT Security-Sécurité PC et Internet

Après un premier avertissement resté sans réponse, un collectif de hackers australiens a publié deux failles de sécurité qui touchent Snapchat.

Just days after the launch of the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One, Kaspersky Lab experts have discovered that PC gamers across Europe were hit by a massive number of attacks in 2013. Currently Kaspersky Lab knows 4.6 million pieces of gaming focused malware, with the total number of attacks facing gamers hitting 11.7 million globally.

 

===> On average, users were hit by 34,000 attacks related to gaming malware daily. <===

 

Chinese hackers have successfully infiltrated five European Foreign Ministries and targeted other Western industrial companies, according to researchers.

Microsoft, in conjunction with Europol and the FBI, have successfully taken down the click fraud servers used by ZeroAccess, disrupting one of the world's largest and most resilient botnets.

 

In the meantime though we should give praise to Microsoft and its crime busting partners for the serious blow they have landed on a difficult opponent.

 

Unless Microsoft or Europol can identify the 'John Does 1-8' mentioned in the court documents then we can expect ZeroAccess to resurface in the near future.

 

Always be wary of software which seems to be too good to be true. It may well be trying to make money at your expense.

 

Hopefully other anti-virus vendors will follow MalwareBytes’s lead and add detection of this potentially unwanted application, as I cannot imagine many people wanting their computer’s performance to be halved because it is secretly making money for someone else.

November 26, 2013

The FBI Might Do More Domestic Surveillance than the NSA

This is a long article about the FBI's Data Intercept Technology Unit (DITU), which is basically its own internal NSA.

It carries out its own signals intelligence operations and is trying to collect huge amounts of email and Internet data from U.S. companies -- an operation that the NSA once conducted, was reprimanded for, and says it abandoned.

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The unit works closely with the "big three" U.S. telecommunications companies -- AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint -- to ensure its ability to intercept the telephone and Internet communications of its domestic targets, as well as the NSA's ability to intercept electronic communications transiting through the United States on fiber-optic cables.

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After Prism was disclosed in the Washington Post and the Guardian, some technology company executives claimed they knew nothing about a collection program run by the NSA. And that may have been true. The companies would likely have interacted only with officials from the DITU and others in the FBI and the Justice Department, said sources who have worked with the unit to implement surveillance orders.

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The American intelligence service - NSA - infected more than 50,000 computer networks worldwide with malicious software designed to steal sensitive information.

Atrax, is an inexpensive crimeware kit that comes with a slew of capabilities including browser data extraction, Bitcoin mining and the capability to launch DDoS attacks.

Experts are warning users to expect a steep rise in Bitcointhemed malware attacks following discovery of a new virus called Bitcoin Alarm

 

The latest virus is based on spam emails that take users to a website called bitcoin-alarm.net. This promises them a Windows app that will send them the latest Bitcoin prices via SMS. But the download contains a Trojan which Arbor research analyst Kenny MacDermid, who discovered the malware, said is designed for stealing login information, and is likely in this case being used to steal Bitcoins.

Last week, we learned that police in Germany arrested two individuals who used a modified version of an existing malware to create a botnet which they...

 

Skynet is capable of performing various tasks, including launching DDOS attacks, mining Bitcoin and stealing banking information.

Panique dans la toile underground. Sheep Marketplace, le site qui a remplacé Silk Road dans le cœur des dealers et des drogués, ne répond plus. Ses utilisateurs soupçonnent celui qui l’avait créé d’être parti avec la caisse… pleine de Bitcoin.

A rogue anti-virus product that blackmails people by secretly taking their picture with their webcam is on the rise.

Earlier this year, researchers from Kaspersky became aware of the existence of a new banking Trojan advertised as being capable of targeting the custo...

Horse racing website RacingPost.com has suffered a data breach as a result of which customer information has been compromised. According to a stateme...