Malware

APT12, the espionage group believed to be behind attacks on The New York Times, is piggy-backing on international interest in the G20 summit to penetrate victims' networks via malicious emails.

The bulletin, posted on the Public Intelligence website, chronicles statistics and informs recipients of three common threats facing the open source mobile platform.

A number of major media websites, including The New York Times, Twitter and Huffington Post U.K., were suffering problems Tuesday that stemmed from a DNS attack orchestrated by the Syrian Electronic Army on web host Melbourne IT.

Researchers at ESET have discovered that the popular file-downloading utility Orbit Downloader contains a remotely-updating distributed denial-of-service capability. It potentially could be used to spread malware, as well.

Ransomware scams typically use an official-sounding authority to dupe users into believing they've committed a crime. A new variant leverages the National Security Agency's recently disclosed surveillance program.

Two officia- looking websites on the Google App Engine server are serving up some nasty adware to unsuspecting users, according to Barracuda Labs.

Along with a report on the latest Poison Ivy-related APT threats, FireEye also released a free package of tools to help organizations identify targeted attacks where the remote access trojan is leveraged.