Tag: TROJAN

A hacked version of the novelty Android app 'Steamy Windows' is making the rounds on third-party app markets and sites that peddle pirated software. Chinese hackers pulled the official version of the app from the Android Market, and then contaminated the code with a trojan that allows the hackers to install other software, change a phone's bookmarks, open websites and silently send text messages. ...

From the Consumer Electronics Show to the Adult Entertainment Expo, we looked at the forward-thinking objects meant to bring (and create) pleasure. At Switched, we are big proponents of rethinking the way women (and men) can use technology for pleasure, and the days of anatomical, phallic sex objects -- for us at least -- are over. These gorgeously designed devices are intuitive and feminine, ...

Share Over the holidays, several government employees and contractors received a Christmas e-card that purported to be from The White House, but actually contained document-swiping malware. According to Krebs on Security, when a recipient opened the file, or clicked on either of the included links, a trojan stole PDF, Word and Excel documents, and then uploaded them to a server in Belarus. ...

Taking on Lady Gaga is scary. Taking on Gagaloo, Rihanna, Ke$ha and Justin Timberlake? Well, that goes beyond brazen and attains near-heroic levels of brass gonads. That's exactly what two German hackers -- mere kids at 17 and 23 -- claim to have done, infecting A-list stars with trojans and malware in hopes of snatching some juicy scoops. "The trick itself is nothing special," German prosecutor ...

Sophos rolled out some free anti-virus software today, giving Mac users a brand new way to guard against the small percentage of malware actually designed to target their systems. While the company's new Anti-Virus Home Edition for Mac is designed to detect and defuse malware aimed at Mac operating systems, it can also pick up on malware that's written for Windows, and is spread via USB drives ...

If you come across any software claiming to be 'Microsoft Security Essentials,' you might want to double-check before downloading it, because it may very well be a trojan. Known as 'Win32/FakePAV,' this trojan reportedly does a pretty good job of disguising itself, and features many of the same displays and messages you'd see on an authentic version of Security Essentials. Once downloaded, ...

If you've received any suspicious-looking e-mails from LinkedIn recently, you may have been targeted by the latest Trojan attack to hit inboxes. The malicious e-mails, which targeted billions of Windows users yesterday, seemed like normal LinkedIn invitations from random contacts. And, like most LinkedIn invites, the messages asked users to click a link to confirm the request. Instead of sending ...

Share Yesterday afternoon, a massive virus hit e-mail accounts across the world, including those at major corporations like ABC/Disney, Google, Coca-Cola and NASA. According to ABC News, the trojan virus spread through e-mails with subject lines that read 'Here You Have,' while other versions of the worm were hidden under subject lines like 'This is The Free Dowload Sex Movies,you can find it ...

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2010/07/04/any-usb-peripheral-is-now-a-potential-threat/'; A group of Canadian hackers have identified and learned to exploit a flaw that allows them to turn any USB peripheral into a sort of hardware trojan horse. Plug-and-play USB devices follow a consistent rule, the device identifies itself to the PC. The computer, by rule, will believe that a UB device ...

If you're an avid reader or a compulsive video-on-demand customer, chances are that your inbox sees a pretty regular flow of e-mails from Amazon. Not all of them, though, are legit. A recent wave of malware has been sneaking its way into inboxes, under the guise of Amazon's trustworthy name. The e-mails appear to be order confirmations from the online store, but beneath that facade lies a nasty ...

Share According to the BBC News, a Japanese virus is spreading across Winni, a popular file-sharing site. The trojan horse targets people who are downloading illegal copies of Hentai files, which are an explicit form of Japanese anime. Yes, cartoon-porn fans are being plagued by malware. If you download an infected file, the virus prompts you to a game installation window on your PC and asks ...

As if phishing scams and identity thefts didn't already make the Internet unappetizing, hackers are apparently getting still more industrious in ways that leave us feeling queasy. According to The New Scientist, we now have to worry about "a burgeoning cyber-crime industry, one which lets people with next to no programming skills steal a fortune in cash or get hold of sensitive government ...

A trojan known as Zeus is slowly making its way around the globe. The malicious program has been discovered on more that 74,000 systems, apparently targeting those in government offices and major companies like Merck, Cardinal Health, Paramount Pictures, and Juniper Networks. Zeus has been creeping onto more and more PCs over the last year and a half, collecting corporate log-in information, as ...

Affiliate programs are nothing new to online retailers; but, now, distributors of malware are taking that model and offering "pay per install" programs, rewarding immoral Web users for installing pieces of malware on other people's computers. The practice was described to attendees of the Black Hat DC conference by Kevin Stevens, an analyst at SecureWorks. Sites like Earnings4U are paying ...

As swine flu hysteria has gained steam, we've seen plenty of spammers and scammers take to the Web to profit from the paranoia. And now, the latest wolf in swine flu clothing to hit inboxes is a malware scam disguised as an e-mail from the Center for Disease Control (CDC). The e-mail contains information about a so-called 'State Vaccination H1N1 Program,' which requires the recipient to create an ...