Thursday, October 16th, 2008
Grisoft, makers of AVG antivirus, on Wednesday released a new update addressing a false positive in another security product.
On Tuesday, AVG users reported desktops warnings that their desktop was infected with something called Trojan Agent r.CX. Some files within zlsSetup_70_483_000_en[1].exe, a compressed file containing dormant set-up files for Check Point's ...
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Saturday, September 27th, 2008
A Trojan horse program now available to a growing number of fraudsters can add data entry fields to legitimate online banking sites and entice consumers to give up sensitive information such as bank card numbers and PINs (personal identification numbers).
The Limbo malware integrates itself into a Web browser using a ...
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Friday, September 5th, 2008
Twitter's time has finally come.The microblogging service, once the playground of the Web 2.0 digerati, is now mainstream enough to be targeted by online criminals.Kaspersky Lab has uncovered a fake Twitter profile created solely for the purpose of infecting people's computers.The profile, with an alias that means "pretty rabbit" in ...
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Sunday, August 24th, 2008
This morning we detected another spam campaign with the aim of enticing users into downloading and executing a file they believe is a 6 month trial of a product called “Anti-Virus Nero Advanced Pro 2009“. When analyzed further the file is actually a variation of the rouge antivirus application known ...
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Friday, August 22nd, 2008
Websense, the security services provider, has reported a successful case of cache poisoning on name servers of one of the largest Chinese ISPs. Netcom customers are said to have been steered by criminals to manipulated pages on which exploits for RealPlayer, MS Snapshot Viewer, Adobe Flash Player and Microsoft Data ...
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