Justin Smith has been hit with a one-two punch of bad luck. First, the Toronto man was duped by a job scam that made off with $3,000. Then his longtime bank, Tangerine, helped itself to money Smith had in his tax-free savings account to recoup what it had lost in the scam. “You keep your money in…
Eight-year-old Stantinko botnet updates its Linux malware. Stantinko, one of the oldest malware botnets still operating today, has rolled out updates to its class of Linux malware, upgrading its trojan to pose as the legitimate Apache web server process (httpd) in order to make detection harder on infected hosts.
Check Point researchers recently encountered WAPDropper, a new malware which downloads and executes an additional payload. In the current campaign, it drops a WAP premium dialer which subscribes its victims to premium services without their knowledge or consent.