Security researchers recently unveiled findings about malware that came preinstalled on a Vodafone mobile phone handset.

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Malware Gets Smart with Vodafone Smartphone

It seems that fans around the world are not the only ones who are hooked on the Oscars .

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Oscars 2010 Awards Users with FAKEAV

The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) issued a new vulnerability note . However, this particular “vulnerability” concerns a rather unusual product—a USB charger for rechargeable batteries.

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USB Battery Chargers with Malware?

Following the shutdown of the Mariposa botnet recently, three alleged members of the group behind the said botnet were finally arrested last week by the Spanish Police, although they are still pursuing another suspect that may still be at large somewhere in South America. The Mariposa botnet was one of the largest botnets to date. It was reportedly responsible for attacking millions of businesses around the world, including Fortune 1000 companies, in a mission to steal online banking, business, and personal information from compromised systems.

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Mariposa Botnet Perpetrators Captured

TrendLabs researchers have recently published its findings about ZeuS , a botnet making the headlines in today’s threat landscape. ZeuS: A Persistent Criminal Enterprise ZeuS has been entrenched in the cybercriminal business for a long time now and has continuously evolved and improved. Given the vast number of toolkit versions readily available in the underground, the features ZeuS possesses to thwart both antivirus and other security solutions, as well as efforts by the security industry, ZeuS will continue to be used by cybercriminals to steal personal information and even people’s identities.

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What’s the juice on ZeuS?

Trend Micro recently came across a .PDF file sample that exploits a vulnerability that was discovered as early as mid-2009. The specially crafted .PDF file detected as TROJ_PIDIEF.SML contains malicious JavaScript in its code that uses the getAnnots() method to corrupt an affected system’s memory.

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ZeuS and PDF Exploits: Two Baddies Team Up

News of a performer killer whale allegedly killing its trainer made the headlines this week. Dawn Branchaeu, an animal trainer in SeaWorld Florida , was attacked by one of the trained killer whales last Wednesday

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FAKEAV Rides on the Back of a Killer Whale

Why is it that banking trojans are a problem when all online banks are HTTPS secured and many of them employ multi-factor authentication?

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Sprechen Sie SSL?

There is a new bot in town and it seems that it has set out to rival the notorious ZBOT botnet.

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Keeping an Eye on the EYEBOT and a Possible Bot War

Spammers are becoming bolder, targeting even government agencies such as the National Intelligence Council (NIC) to further their malicious causes. Trend Micro fraud analysts were recently alerted to the discovery of spammed messages that purported to come from the NIC —the Intelligence Community (IC)’s center for midterm and long-term strategic thinking

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ZBOT Variant Spoofs the NIC to Spam Other Government Agencies