September 23rd, 2011 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua One of the major problems that we face on Internet is infected website, some website owner they are not aware that they are hosting viruses. Usually criminals inject malicious code on to innocent web pages by using Google search engine for locating vulnerable website, and they mainly focus on those parts of the website not [...]
September 19th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Spammers and malware distributors have started to take advantage of Dutch certificate authority DigiNotar. After that the Dutch government alerted about attackers managed to hack into web security firm where hundreds of bogus security certificates that could be used on websites including Google, Microsoft and Twitter. Barracuda warned of a spamming campaign targeting Royal Bank [...]
July 19th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Microsoft announced to offer 250 000$ reward for any information that helps to arrest cybercriminals behind Rustock the biggest spamming botnet. Previously in June Microsoft published two notices in Russian newspapers to notify the Rustock operators of the civil lawsuit. Now, Microsoft promised to pay a quarter million dollars to those who could help them and [...]
Posted in Cybercrime, Cybercrime & Hacking, Malwares 
Tags: Botnet, Cybercrime, Cybercrime & Hacking, Malware, Rustock, Spam, Trojan 
No Comments » September 28th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua The Zeus banking Trojan, which targets Windows-based computers, is now being used to target victims’ mobile phones too, according to several researchers. Fortinet said today that it had uncovered new mobile malware dubbed SymbOS/Zitmo, which stands for Zeus in the Mobile, that is most likely designed to intercept confirmation text messages that banks send to [...]
August 18th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Symantec researchers reported a new malicious application in the virtual store Android Market, this application can determine users location in real time on AndroidOS. Tapsnake is the name of the game which is a version of the popular game “Snake”. Game developers did not provide any information that the application sends each 15 minute victims [...]
Posted in Anti-Viruses, News, Software Security Tags: Android, Malware, Symantec, Tapsnake, Trojan 5 Comments » March 26th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua New malware has been observed by Vietnamese computer security company Bach Khoa, The Malicious software overwrites programs update to bypass antivirus software. W32.Fakeupver.trojan is the name of this new Trojan, first what the malware do is replacing automatic update system process for Adobe, Java, Deep Freeze or even Windows operating system to trick AntiMalware. By [...]
February 18th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Over the past 1,5 year more than 75 thousands machine worldwide have been infected by Zeus Trojan this is according to NetWitnes Company, all these infected computers were used to thief Banking account, Social Networking and email passwords. Among the victims we can find some of the major companies like Merck, Cardinal Health, Paramount Pictures [...]
