More than 200 fraudulent Android apps in the Google Play marketplace are bamboozling Japanese-language porn seekers into shelling out $1,000 for bogus services, security firm Symantec said in a blog post today.
In a surprising report, security firm Symantec says that religious and ideological websites can carry three times more malware threats than porn sites.
Computer security systems provider Symantec has released its 13th Internet Security Threat Report, which analyzed Internet attacks and vulnerabilities such as malicious code, phishing, spam and other security risks over the past six months.
In its latest Internet Security Threat Report, security software vendor Symantec Corp. reported that cyber criminals are becoming “increasingly more professional” in their development, distribution and execution of malicious code and methods.
Security software vendor Symantec has launched Norton Internet Security 2008 and Norton AntiVirus 2008, boasting new features designed to “provide computer users with comprehensive protection against new and emerging online threats.”
Symantec has released its biannual Internet Security Threat Report, which assesses risk for leading browsers. The report found that only Opera saw its total number of bugs decrease, compared to Mozilla’s Firefox browser, which lead the field with 47 security bugs found by Symantec’s engineering team.
The newest computer virus to hit worm-riddled cyberspace is Korgo (W32.Korgo), a worm that is so far isolated to parts of Germany but capable of targeting personal bank and credit card information without any involvement from a user, authorities said Thursday.
