From Reuters:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/28/net-us-cyberwar-flame-idUSBRE84R0E420120528?feedType=RSS&feedName=technologyNews&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&dlvrit=56505

It is the most complex piece of malicious software discovered to date, said Kaspersky Lab security senior researcher Roel Schouwenberg, whose company discovered the virus. The results of the Lab's work were made available on Monday.

Schouwenberg said he did not know who built Flame.

If the Lab's analysis is correct, Flame could be the third major cyber weapon uncovered after the Stuxnet virus that attacked Iran's nuclear program in 2010, and its data-stealing cousin Duqu, named after the Star Wars villain.

The discovery by one of the world's largest makers of anti-virus software will likely fuel speculation that nations have already secretly deployed other cyber weapons.

"If Flame went on undiscovered for five years, the only logical conclusion is that there are other operations ongoing that we don't know about," Schouwenberg said in an interview.

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From https://krebsonsecurity.com/

Google plans today to begin warning Internet users if their computers show telltale signs of being infected with the DNSChanger Trojan. The company estimates that more than 500,000 systems remain infected with the malware, despite a looming deadline that threatens to quarantine the sick computers from the rest of the Internet.

Security experts won court approval last year to seize control of the infrastucture that powered the search-hijacking Trojan in a bid to help users clean up infections. But a court-imposed deadline to power down that infrastructure will sever Internet access for PCs that are not rid of the malware before July 9, 2012.

The company said the warning (pictured above) will appear only when a user with an infected system visits a Google search results property (google.com, google.co.uk, etc.), and will include the message, “Your computer appears to be infected.” Google security engineerDamian Menscher said the company expects to notify approximately a half-million users in the first week of the notices.

“In general we want to notify users [of malware infections] anytime we are capable of doing so, but the fact that we don’t do this more often is really just because it’s hard to come across cases where we can do it this accurately,” Menscher said.  “In many cases we only have maybe a 90 percent confidence that someone is infected, and the false positive rate of 10 percent is simply too high to be feasible. But in this case we can be essentially certain that someone is infected.”

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As more and more tools are created to make it to code across browsers the result will be apps like this one that easy exploit all browsers.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/

At issue is a program that the author calls “LilyJade,” a browser plugin that usesCrossrider, an emerging programming framework designed to simplify the process of writing plugins that will run on   Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, andMozilla Firefox.  The plugin spreads by posting a link to a video on a user’s Facebook wall, and friends who follow the link are told they need to accept the installation of the plugin in order to view the video. Users who install LilyJade will have their accounts modified to periodically post links that help pimp the program.

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When playing songs in iTunes on Windows 8 some users find that the program will only play on track and stop.  The program keeps functioning, it's not frozen it just will not play the next song.  Sometime it will spring back to life after a very long 10-20 minute pause.

A fix involving setting the program to Windows XP SP3 computability mode is being reported as the fix.  This may make the problem go away for some users but I have found the real fix is to update the systems Realtek HD Audio drivers.

This is the only source I have found for the new updated Windows 8 Drivers:

http://drivers.softpedia.com/get/SOUND-CARD/REALTEK/Realtek-HD-Audio-Driver-for-Windows-7-Windows-8-x64.shtml

You need to unpack the files then manually update the Realtek HD Audio driver in the Windows Device Manager.

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The Oxford University IT help desk says they have not had this many students seeking aid due to a maleware infection since 2003's Blaster Worm:

http://blogs.oucs.ox.ac.uk/oxcert/2012/04/25/musings-on-mac-malware/

Over the past couple of weeks, OxCERT have been somewhat overwhelmed by Mac malware. This isn’t quite the first time we’ve dealt with problems on Macs – we’ve seen several compromised over the years through weak or exposed ssh credentials, and others infected as a result of installing pirated software. But with Flashback, the game has changed forever. We are seeing huge numbers of attacks of the sort that Windows users have had to contend with for years. Apple users, and indeed Apple themselves, just have not been ready. We are dealing with what is probably the biggest outbreak since Blaster struck the Windows world all the way back in the summer of 2003. That time OxCERT dealt with around 1000 incidents; we have seen several hundred Flashback incidents and they keep on coming.

If you A re victim of the Mac Flashback virus we can help you.

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