Malware

A patch was issued for CVE-2012-0158 in April 2012, but Trend Micro found that it is the most commonly exploited vulnerability related to targeted attacks in the second half of 2013.

Working with researchers from FireEye, Google rebuffed a nasty malware app that would let hackers take bank passwords and other data from Android devices.

The TrendLabs 1Q 2014 Security Roundup found online banking malware to be on the rise and identified ten companies most frequently hit.

A miner infected Synology systems with cryptocurrency mining malware and raked in more than 500 million Dogecoins worth more than $620,000 at the time.

A security firm in Germany, G Data, analyzed the malware on the Star N9500 phone.

The campaign was first noted on Wednesday morning, where more than 40,000 malicious emails were quarantined by researchers.

The mobile malware, ANDROIDOS_RUSMS.A, has primarily struck users in Taiwan.