Tag Archives: trojans

Android-centric, booming, espionage friendly are today’s mobile threatscape

The fact that Kaspersky Lab has not recorded malware that uses exploits in Android to perform a drive-by attack may seem positive, but only at a first glance. The grim reality is that users are actively searching for software from suspicious sources and taking no precautions when launching an unknown program – all of which [...]

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McAfee report sees malware repurposed to strike various economic sectors

McAfee recently released the McAfee Threats Report: Fourth Quarter 2012, (report) in which McAfee Labs revealed that sophisticated attacks originally targeting the financial services industry are now increasingly directed at other critical sectors of the economy, while an emerging set of new tactics and technologies are being implemented to evade industry-standard security measures. The report [...]

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