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Fighting cybercrime
I recently stumbled across a fantastic article written by Marcin Kleczynsk that I’d like to share with our readers. Mr. Kleczynsk is the CEO of Malwarebytes, a provider of highly effective, award winning anti-malware solutions. Here’s the original article: Fighting cybercrime: How to avoid malware and other computer viruses…
Posted in Exploits, Security Products, Vulnerabilities, Web Security
Also tagged Cyber Security, Cybercrime, Malwarebytes, MBAM, Viruses
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Wikipedia Ads Could Mean You’re Infected With Malware!
According to Threatpost, the Wikimedia Foundation is warning its millions of visitors that if they’re seeing ads appearing on any of the Foundation’s Web sites, then their computer is probably infected with malware. The Foundation issued a statement on Monday clarifying that it never runs ads…
Posted in Exploits, Virus Outbreak Alerts, Vulnerabilities, Web Security
Also tagged ShadowServer, Threatpost, Wikimedia Foundation, Wikipedia, Wikipedia Ads
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Latest malware trends
Top 10 threats on the Internet № Name % of all attacks Change in ranking 1 Malicious URL 91.26% 0 2 Trojan.Script.Iframer 5.81% 0 3 Trojan.Script.Generic 2.15% 0 4 Trojan-Downloader.Script.Generic 0.95% 2 5 Trojan.Win32.Generic 0.47% -2 6 Trojan-Downloader.JS.Agent.gmr 0.43% new 7 Trojan-Spy.JS.Agent.c 0.37% -2 8…
Posted in Exploits, Virus Outbreak Alerts, Vulnerabilities, Web Security
Also tagged internet threats, malicious activity, virus
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Microsoft AV Flags Google as ‘Blacole’ Malware
Microsoft just released new patches to fix four critical vulnerabilities. The four critical bugs are as follows: MS12-008 Vulnerabilities in Windows Kernel-Mode Drivers Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2660465) MS12-010 Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (2647516) MS12-013 Vulnerability in C Run-Time Library Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2654428)…
Posted in Security Products, Virus Outbreak Alerts, Vulnerabilities, Web Security
Also tagged Blacole, false positive, Google, Microsoft Security Essentials
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Top 10 Threat Detections for January
GFI’s top 10 threat detection list is compiled from collected scan data of tens of thousands of GFI VIPRE Antivirus customers who are part of GFI’s ThreatNet™ automated threat tracking system. ThreatNet statistics revealed that Trojans continue to be the most pervasive threat, taking half…
Posted in Exploits, Security Products, Virus Outbreak Alerts, Vulnerabilities, Web Security
Also tagged Adware, anti-virus, computer virus, GFI, Threat Detection, ThreatNet, Top Threats, Trojan, Vipre
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Intuit spam leads to exploit kits / malware
Tax season is here for most of us which means many spammers will try to take advantage of the situation and lead you to tax-related malicious links. Security companies have been seeing a large number of emails purporting to be from Intuit, the company that makes QuickBooks,…
Posted in Exploits, QuickBooks, Virus Outbreak Alerts, Vulnerabilities, Web Security
Also tagged Exploits, fake email, Intuit, QuickBooks, Quicken, scam, Spam, Turbo Tax
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New rogue spyware: AV Security Essentials
What this infection does: AV Security Essentials is a rogue anti-spyware program from the VirusDoctor family. It is designed to look almost exactly like Microsoft Security Essentials to try and fool users. This infection is promoted through web sites that show advertisements that pretend to be online…
Posted in Exploits, Virus Outbreak Alerts, Vulnerabilities, Web Security
Also tagged Fake Security Scanner, Rogue AV
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Beware of fake AV scams
The use of a multi-click rotation script and traffic sharing between partner’s websites becomes common these days; this method is not necessarily being used to spread malware, it can be used for legitimate purposes as well. A user can go to a specific site, click…
Posted in Exploits, Virus Outbreak Alerts, Vulnerabilities, Web Security
Also tagged Anti-virus scam, Fake AV, Win32/Alureon
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