The term viral is often used to describe the way information spreads across the internet and becomes public. However, a new social communications app has taken the concept to its next level. Plague, an app developed in Lithuania, has taken the way viruses are transmitted as a model and spreads content from one device to another. Not to be confused with the extremely addictive mobile game Plague Inc., --it’s goal is to engineer a virus that will infect the word, Plague shares with it the same concept -- an app that will spread information like an actual infection.

A Russian malware called SoakSoak has infected over 100,000 WordPress sites since Sunday, December 14th, turning blogs into attack platforms. The malware attempts to install dangerous programs on your computer that could possibly steal or delete your information. In an attempt to curb the damage, more than 11,000 websites have been blacklisted by Google after they were found infected. According to security firm Sucuri, which is the first security firm that reported on the blacklisting, the malware uses a vulnerability in a slideshow plug-in called Slider Revolution. The Slider Revolution team have already fixed it with updates. Unfortunately, the problem is that the old, vulnerable version of the plug-in is still bundled with WordPress themes, so lots of sites are still using the wrong version. SoakSoak modifies a file in infected sites’ WordPress installation, then it loads a JavaScript malware from the soaksoak.ru domain, which is where the malware’s name comes from.

Symantec has found an advanced malicious software application that appears to have been used for spying and collecting data across the globe. Named Backdoor.Regin, or simply Regin, the software is essentially a very powerful Trojan Horse that appears to have been circulating since 2008. It has been hitting government agencies, internet providers, telecom companies, airlines, industrial entities, research institutes, energy companies, and individual systems with impunity, using sophisticated encryption and targeting systems to spy on targets. It is speculated that most infections came from computers visiting "spoofed versions of well-known websites," says Symantec, though one case confirms Yahoo! Messenger was also involved.