MALWARE

The number of malware that aim the Android mobile operating system has gone up by 400 per cent since summer of last year, according to a report by Juniper Networks.

The White House on Thursday pressed Congress to pass strong cybersecurity measures to protect consumers' personal information and safeguard the nation's financial system and electric power grid from potentially devastating attacks.

The blog run by the man who first tweeted the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound was infected by an exploit kit, according to researchers at Websense.

FBI continues to work on the Coreflood Botnet, remotely uninstalling it from countless infected PCs.

The ILOVEYOU virus of early 2000s fame is getting its own movie.

The Iranian government has not issued any details about kind of damage the Stars virus did. While Jalali did not accuse the U.S. or Israel directly, he did refer to attacks from the U.S. and Israel on Iranian web sites and Internet infrastructure.

A few weeks following the Rustock take down, the FBI rids the world of the Coreflood botnet.

The year 2010 witnessed significant targeted attacks like Hydraq (a.k.a. Aurora) and Stuxnet. While Stuxnet is a very complex threat, not all malicious code requires this level of complexity to breach an isolated network, Symantec said. It has listed out 10 propagation mechanisms of the malicious code employed in a targeted cyber attack.

The lizamoon scareware attack got a lot of attention because it supposedly infected a 1.5 million web pages, but some experts are now saying the effect was likely orders of magnitude smaller.

Targeted attacks, including attacks on leading mobile platforms, are set to rise further in future, security software maker Symantec said on Tuesday. Targeted cyber attacks are more complex and challenging but the returns are also higher, prompting cyber criminal to launch more of this kind in future, a security strategist at Symantec told Reuters.

Lizamoon is the name of an Internet-based scareware attack which plays on fears of computer viruses and trust in web security software. Its ultimate aim is to get a user provide credit card information.

A fast-spreading SQL injection attack that illegally peddles a bogus scareware has been breaking anti-virus barriers and compromising millions of websites, besides defrauding unsuspecting victims. The news of this attack was brought out by Websense Security Labs in its blog last week. Websense said its Threatseeker Network identified a new malicious mass-injection campaign which it named LizaMoon.

Security firm Symantec recently said a fake Google Android app, advertised as a free version of a paid app, is making the rounds, stealing data and sending a message to pirates.

Facebook is not behind the web search box that has appeared on the pages of some of its users, the company said.

Google, after removing at least 50 malicious apps from the Android Market, said it will now remove those apps from the devices as well by using remote application removal feature.

Google had to pull over 50 Android apps, after they have found them to contain malicious code.

A rogue Google Android developer by the name of Myournet took advantage of the company's openness by developing free mal-ware induced apps, which were direct rip-offs of popular apps.

A variation on a similar program targeting Windows systems, a new backdoor trojan targets OS X users.

Malware on mobile phones could be the next big target for criminals.

Smishing, Botnet , BlueBugging, Pod Slurping, Ransomware, Scareware, Sidejacking, Black Hat, White Hat and RATs -- this is the vocabulary of hackers -- and useful for users to understand.

McAfee says mobile threats increased by 46 percent from the year before.