The big security story of recent days is the Eir modem hack. In late November up to 400,000 Eir users were affected as the service was hit with suspected DDoS attack, but now Eir is concerned about the safety of some 130,000 of its broadband customers’ routers, because some 2000 may have been compromised by … More Eir, routers, hacking and botnets
Eight years ago, on November 21st, 2008, Conficker reared its ugly head. And since then, the “worm that roared” – as ESET’s distinguished researcher Aryeh Goretsky puts it – has remained stubbornly active. Targeting Microsoft Windows, it has compromised home, business and government computers across 190 countries, leading experts to call it the most notorious … More The odd, 8-year legacy of the Conficker worm
Some users of the ad-supported music streaming service Spotify Free got more hits than they bargained for, according to numerous reports. It all started on Tuesday (4th), when one of its users reported an issue to their forum. It read: There’s something pretty alarming going on right now with Spotify Free. This started several hours ago. If … More Spotify Free hits sour note with infected ads
ESET researchers noticed a huge outbreak of a new Spy.Banker variant, detected as Spy.Banker.ADEA. Nemucod has previously been one of the most detected malwares in Ireland. On the morning of Friday August 12th, at around 12pm CET this new variant was spotted in Brazil. Similar to previous ones used by other banking trojans in South America, … More Nemucod now spreading banking trojans
Analysis of ESET LiveGrid®, a sophisticated malware reporting and tracking system, shows that the highest number of detections this month, with 8.40% of the total, was scored by JS/Danger.ScriptAttachment. 1. JS/Danger.ScriptAttachment Previous Ranking: 3 Percentage Detected: 8.40% JS/Danger.ScriptAttachment is a generic detection of suspicious e-mail attachments. 2. JS/TrojanDownloader.Nemucod Previous Ranking: 2 Percentage Detected: 6.71% JS/TrojanDownloader.Nemucod … More Monthly Threat Report: May 2016
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