Windows 8 has just recently been released but malware authors are updating their codes to target the new Microsoft operating system.
The information comes from Symantec which posted an analysis of a malware named Backdoor.Makadocs which uses RTF and Word documents to spread.
In a post on Symantec’s Official Blog, Takashi Katsuki says:
“Initially, I thought that Backdoor.Makadocs was a simple and typical back door Trojan horse. It receives and executes commands from a command-and-control …

Authorities in France have arrested a 20-year-old hacker who was defrauding smartphone users via malicious apps.
According to the BBC, the hacker who has been described as “extremely smart”, used fake apps purporting to be popular apps to amass about 500,000 Euros since last year.
Authorities say that the hacker did not study computer science.
The hacker whose name has not been revealed reportedly worked from his parent’s home in Northern France and developed apps which he offered free to …

Kaspersky has found three spyware related to Flame malware threats said to use “sophisticated encryption methods”.
The security firm says it exposed three new unfriendly programs while studying several Command and Control (C&C) servers used by creators of Flame malware.
“Sophisticated encryption methods were utilised so that no one, but the attackers, could obtain the data uploaded from infected machines,” read Kaspersky’s statement.
“The analysis of the …

Microsoft is acting against the growing Nitol botnet that it claims has been activated by malware sneaked thru PC suppliers.
Richard Boscovich, assistant general counsel in Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit, said the Nitol botnet originates and spreads from vulnerable supply chains where cybercriminals inserted fake software diffused with malware.
The software giant said it is trying hard to figure out how to cut off the malware strains used and has had rough success in disinfesting the Nitol …

November 2011 the FBI seized a series of servers used by a criminal ring to divert searches to paid advertisements. The gang infected over 4 million computers worldwide with Malware, known as the DNS Changer.
 
When unaffected users perform a search for a website either in their address bar or by using a search engine, their PC will look up the domain name and convert the letters into numbers. Each website has a DNS which computers read just as we read letters. For example if you typed …

Hundreds of thousands of Windows PCs and Macs might lose Internet accessibility starting today unless infected machines get rid of the exceedingly harmful DNSChanger malware, which first appeared in 2007.
In 2011, The U.S. Federal Burea of Investigation (FBI) caught and shuttered all operations by the group of cybercriminals who were responsible for the malicious software. Right after, the FBI handled directly, but briefly, the entire online Domain Name System (DNS) routing for infected Windows …

Apple has removed the first instance of a malware app in the iOS App Store which was revealed by Kaspersky yesterday.
In a post on the Securelist blog of the security software company, senior malware analyst Denis Maslennikov revealed just why the Find and Call app was flagged as malware.
The Russian-language app billed itself as an app which help users simplify their address books. However, Maslennikov revealed it had a pretty nasty hidden agenda. It was flagged by kaspersky as …

A top security firm has revealed that one of every five Mac computers have Windows malware on their system.
The report comes from Sophos which said in a post on its Naked Security site that “A 100,000 strong snapshot of the millions of Mac computers which have recently downloaded Sophos’s free Mac anti-virus software, revealed that 20% of Mac computers were carrying one or more instances of Windows malware.”
Nonetheless, this is not to say that the Mac computers are infected with …

Software security experts warm users about the fake Angry Birds flying in the Space (Image via Flickr / armaghlass)

Experts at the antivirus software company Sophos have detected a Trojan loaded fake version of the mega popular mobile phone game Angry Birds Space app for Android smartphones. Initially the fake was available for download at various alternative Android app marketplaces, but now, despite the introduction of stricter new security algorithms by Google, the malicious code ridden …

A new virus has infected more than 600,000 Apple computers around the world. As explained by experts from a Russian computer security firm, “Dr. Web”, a Trojan called BackDoor.Flashback penetrates into the computers running operating system Mac OS X and creates a botnet – a network of infected “Mac’s”. Subsequently, the attackers can use it to organize DDoS-attacks or send spam.
As clarified by CNET, FlashBack was discovered in September 2011. It penetrated into Mac computers …