The problem is not a new one; however, the research community has found a new variant of the fearful GPCODE malware. To be precise, we call it "ransomware" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ransomware_%28malware%29 ). The new GPCODE variant uses 1024-bit encryption to lock down all data on an...

It seems Internet users do not have any peace anymore. We have witnessed a lot of security issues on the Internet to date but never like this latest period, which can be named -to my personal perspective- as “the age of compromised websites”. The Anti-Malware research community is getting increasing...

by Rossano Ferraris Another interesting case I would like to bring to your attention is the effect of the so-called “fake-codec” trojans. Here is what I figured out after searching the phrase “daily dawn” on the Google search engine. The screenshot reflects a blogspot webpage from the search results...

by Rossano Ferraris Users are being infected with malware from a variety of sources. Unfortunately, malware authors are continually refining their technique. As I will show in this write-up, clicking on the results from innocent searches, like looking for a flight, music or news story, can infect your...

“Creepy”, “stupid”, and “a violation of privacy” are a few ways people have described Facebook’s new advertising system. Facebook Ads introduce both a privacy concern and an annoyance factor, and give the user only marginal control over the annoyance concern and zero control over the privacy concern...

by Rossano Ferraris The other day spammers spread two interesting emails to users throughout the Internet and attempted to make users believe these emails originated from Microsoft. The emails contained an alert that advised users of an undiscovered vulnerability in the Kodak Image Viewer and a new 0...

by Rossano Ferraris Bin Laden's cyber legions are fighting back? It is a bit hard to understand what comes out from cyber-criminal minds but what is sure is that once we hear about e-jihad, security researchers are requested to keep their eyes very open making a full immersion of investigation activity...