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Where is the lulz now?
http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/where-is-the-lulz-now/
Really good news. I have just read that LulzSec members have been arrested and that their main head Sabu has been working as an informant for the FBI. It turns out he was arrested last year, and since then he has been working with Law Enforcement. As I said, really good news Will this mean [...]
Wed, 7 Mar 12
Michael Jackson catalogue stole from Sony. More to come?
http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/michael-jackson-catalogue-stole-from-sony-more-to-come/
Yesterday it was made public that Sony Music had a security incident in May 2011 and the entire back catalogue of Michael Jackson, including unreleased material, was stolen. This happened after Sony was also hacked last year, when personal information from more than a 100 million customers was stolen in 2 different incidents affecting PlayStation [...]
Fri, 17 Feb 12
Bot shopping with my wife
http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/bot-shopping-with-my-wife/
When my wife told me she had received an email with a purchase confirmation she hadn’t done, my first thought was: How can she even remember what she bought? She buys thousands of clothes online, probably she doesn’t remember it, this wouldn’t be the first time After she told me 1,000 times she had not [...]
Wed, 1 Feb 12
PandaLabs Annual Report – 2011
http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/pandalabs-annual-report-2011/
Today we are publishing the PandaLabs report, where you can enjoy an overview of the main figures and security news that have happened in the last 12 months, as well as some figures. You will see how malware creation hit a new record high in 2011 with 26 million samples, that Trojans continue to be [...]
Fri, 27 Jan 12
Katy Perry and Russell Brand baits to spread a new Facebook worm
http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/katy-perry-and-russell-brand-baits-to-spread-a-new-facebook-worm/
Once again, user curiosity becomes cyber-criminals’ best ally. Scammers exploit people’s interest in celebrities to infect users. We have recently detected a new Facebook scam that uses a fake video of singer Katy Perry and ex-husband actor Russell Brand to trick users. If the user clicks the link, they are taken to a fake Facebook [...]
Wed, 25 Jan 12
Sex, lies and Twitter
http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/sex-lies-and-twitter/
Last week we got a new follower in Twitter, Alena Edwards: No tweets so far, the only information about “her” is the message in her profile, where she’s looking for funny guys and gives us a link. Probably it is a spammer, but instead of tweeting links just put the spam link in the profile [...]
Sat, 21 Jan 12
Megaupload and the cybercrime fight
http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/megaupload-and-the-cybercrime-fight/
As most of you already now, yesterday Megaupload was closed by the FBI, accused of “copyright infringement”. You can read FBI’s press release here where the details of the case are explained, and you can see how each accused person in this case could face 50 years jail time. We should be concerned, as the [...]
Fri, 20 Jan 12
The Rise of the Ransomware
http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/the-rise-of-the-ransomware/
In the last months we have seen an increase of ransomware attacks. While the first ones we saw were posing as Microsoft to threaten the user because it had been detected a pirated version of Windows, and in case you didn’t pay the fine they would contact the local law enforcement agencies, the new ones [...]
Fri, 16 Dec 11
2012 Security Trends
http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/2012-security-trends/
2011 is coming to an end, so now it’s time to try to see what we have to expect for the next 12 months: Social networks: Social engineering techniques exploiting users’ weaknesses have become the leading attack method in social networks. Trending topics such as the Olympics or the next US Presidential elections will be [...]
Sat, 3 Dec 11
Could targeted attacks be avoided?
http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/could-targeted-attacks-be-avoided/
This could be a long blog post, but I’ll try to make it short. However, for those of you that are lazy, here you can read the answer to the question, and the ones interested on the whole story (I will make it short, I promise) just follow the * mark: NO (*) (*): One [...]