A report said the targeted cyberespionage attacks are increasingly hitting the manufacturing sector as well as small businesses, which are the target of 31 percent of the attacks.
This campaign, which targets several entities in the Asia Pacific region, was first noticed by Trend Micro in February of 2013. It also later used the Boston Marathon bombing as social engineering bait in April.
[Government email and online transactions will now have an additional layer of security with the introduction of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), which uses digital certificates and dual encryption keys in securing data.
Amar Mehta, Cyberoam country manager for the Philippines, said during a recent press briefing that the local subsidiary will provide support for distribution to further grow the Cyberoam brand in the country.
A united and global participation is best approach to fight cybercrime as it has become very big in scope and impact, according to a computer security expert.
Hosted on a free Web hosting site, it prompted users for Facebook login credentials, calling the video a ?social plugin?. The phishing page contained an image of a fake YouTube video of Rita Ora in the background.
A cyber-criminal group calling itself ?Winnti? has been actively attacking online video gaming companies since 2009, stealing digital certificates signed by legitimate software vendors and also source code of online game projects.
The new spam campaign intrigues users into clicking on the links in the emails by using headlines related to Pope Francis and controversies surrounding the Catholic Church.
Kaspersky Lab has published a new report that analyzed a series of security incidents involving the use of the recently discovered PDF exploit in Adobe Reader and a new, highly customized malicious program known as MiniDuke.
