How to avoid having your bank account drained

The only true defense is behavior: not clicking, not opening, etc.

The Economics of Cybercrime

The Economics of Cybercrime and the Law of Malware Probability. Great stats on underground malware economics. http://ow.ly/3ovhu

Senate bill to require minimum cybersecurity standards for internet

RT @itsecnews: Infosecurity (US): Senate bill would require minimum cybersecurity standards for internet … http://bit.ly/hV3P15

Latest Stuxnet variant uses encryption to evade analysis

Latest Stuxnet variant evermore capable. Ecrypted bot communication makes it near impossible to analyse how it’s working. http://ow.ly/3nfhC

Paying ransom for your… files.

New malware encrypts your files and demands cash to decrypt them. Recommendation: encrypt your kids before they can! http://ow.ly/3m7r9

Image and audio files = attack vector

Didn’t know image, audio & video files were this exploitable. Check out “Malware goes to the movies”: http://ow.ly/3ljNj Kudos @ayampolskiy

If the IRS emails you saying your payment failed: you’ve been hacked

Day-in-the-life of a bankbot. I rec’d the email this article refers to. I wonder who in my 7 degrees is …

New variants mean more work for security researchers

Researcher workload just doubled with discovery of new variant of ZeuS Zbot malware. http://ow.ly/3jOac

Zeus and the new wave of sophisticated threats

Zeus appears to be a sea change in the story of malware.