Still not convinced about patching promptly? Gabor Szappanos of SophosLabs goes behind the scenes of a Microsoft Word based malware campaign… 
Tag Archives: Malware
Apple’s App Store hit by the XCodeGhost of malware present
Until this week, the App Store was to malware what Earth was to the Hitchhiker’s Guide: “Mostly Harmless.” Not any more…
Guess what? Facebook “Dislike” scams are back…
Facebook mentions “Dislike”…and back come the Dislike scams! Don’t get caught, and don’t let your friends fall for it, either.
Smartwatch sensors can be used to eavesdrop on the keys you’re typing
Researchers have shown that a smartwatch’s motion sensors can be used to detect what keys you’re pressing with your left hand and thus guess at the words you’re typing.
Android’s Stagefright back in the limelight – what you need to know
Exploit code for the Stagefright vulnerability is now public. But it’s not all bad news: we explain the risk and how to avoid it…
Apple iOS 9 Safari opens the flood gates to ad-blocking
Meanwhile, Chrome users got a scare when Google (inadvertently: WHEW!) disabled AdBlock in YouTube. Cue painfully long video ads.
Anatomy of a malicious email: Crooks exploiting recent Word hole
Crooks have recently been using CVE-2015-1641, a Word bug that was patched in April 2015. We explain why you really, really want to patch!
Gozi banking Trojan co-author pleads guilty
Latvian Deniss Calovskis may face as little as 2 years in jail for his role in developing the Gozi banking Trojan that infected over a million computers around the world.
Look! A Fraud Fighting Ferret! [Chet Chat Podcast 212]
Chester Wisniewski is back from Down Under to resume our podcast series. From fraud-fighting ferrets to a convicted “Spam King” – enjoy!
Microsoft Word Intruder Revealed – inside a malware construction kit
What happens when cybercrooks take a leaf out of the Advanced Persistent Threatsters’ book? Gabor Szappanos of SophosLabs investigates…