Kaspersky Lab announces the publication of its Monthly Malware Statistics for August 2010. Exploits and worms targeting Windows’ vulnerabilities hit both the ranking of malware most often detected on users’ computers, and the ranking of web threats.
August saw a dramatic growth in malware targeting the CVE-2010-2568 vulnerability. It was first used by Worm.Win32.Stuxnet, a network [...]

ESET, the leader in proactive threat protection, today announced the availability of ESET Mobile Security, a new security solution for mobile devices that protects users from the latest mobile threats. ESET Mobile Security leverages ESET’s proven threat protection to secure users’ mobile communications, sensitive data and privacy on mobile devices that [...]

IT security and data protection firm Sophos is calling upon users of the new Ping musical social network, created by Apple and built into the new version of iTunes, to be on their guard against scammers and spammers who have deluged the system with fraudulent messages.
Ping, which was only launched this week, [...]

Any regular reader of this blog knows that malware can infect a system in several ways—email, browser exploits, instant-messaging applications, peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, and others. Even organizations that take great lengths to secure their Internet gateways have found themselves compromised via one of the oldest infection methods—physical media attacks [...]

Last week it was reported that the Pushdo botnet, used to send spam using the Cutwail spamming module, was taken down, thanks to the efforts of several security researchers. Thirty command-and-control (C&C) servers of the Pushdo/Cutwail botnet were identified, almost 20 of which were taken down after their Internet hosting providers [...]

GFI Software security researchers issued a warning today regarding an expected increase in phishing attacks in relation to the upcoming Labor Day holiday. GFI Labs, the dedicated malware research center of GFI Software, warns that consumers are traditionally at high risk for targeted phishing attacks due to the preponderance of [...]

GFI Software, a leading IT solutions provider for small and medium-sized enterprises, today announced the top 10 most prevalent malware threats for the month of August 2010. The report, compiled from monthly scans performed by GFI’s award-winning anti-malware solution, VIPRE® Antivirus, and its antispyware tool, CounterSpy®, is a service of GFI [...]

Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management solutions, announces the detection of a new family of computer worms that are spreading via numerous instant messaging clients. What makes the worms distinct and highly unusual for this class of program is the fact that they are multilingual and capable of infecting users via several [...]

Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management solutions, has released its report on information security threats in the second quarter of 2010. During this period, the company’s products blocked more than 540 million attempts to infect computers around the world. The countries most targeted were China (17.09% of all attacks), Russia (11.36%), India [...]

Doctor Web releases its new anti-virus product for mobile devices Dr.Web for Android. While popularity of Android is growing steadily, the experience shows that a growing interest in a certain operating system comes along with the increasing number of malicious programs designed to infect it. The release of Dr.Web for Androlid [...]