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• Latest Blackhat SEO on Haiti Earthquake

  Yesterday SANS reported on the Haiti Earthquake and the possibility of Malware in their handler diary http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=7966 . Today I found some Malware seeded by SEO. [Figure 1 – Search Result of ‘Haiti Earthquake’] Following the... Posted Jan 13 2010, 03:03 PM by K K Sen with | with 1 comment(s) Tags: rogue security software, fakealert, antivirus, rogue, rogue security, fraudulent software, rogue software, FakeAV, CA Anti-Virus, install.exe, SEO, Blackhat SEO

• Don’t Get Caught by the XP Police Antivirus!

  Another rogue antivirus is in-the-wild, so please watch out in case you encounter it. It calls itself ‘XP Police Antivirus’. This scareware has the same behavior as other Win32/FakeAV variants (‘Antivirus 2008/2009’) that we detect. It generates false... Posted Feb 03 2009, 11:06 PM by Zarestel Ferrer with | with 3 comment(s) Tags: antivirus, fake, Win32/FakeAV, win32/fakeav.abp, xp police antivirus, scareware

• Barack Obama wins and cybercrime too

  It was just a question of hours -after the election of the new President of the United States of America Barack Obama- and cyber criminals very quickly implemented another malicious activity on the web. Anti cyber-crime community research has witnessed... Posted Nov 06 2008, 12:52 PM by Rossano Ferraris with | with no comments Tags: Anti-Spyware, Anti-Virus, spyware, attack, CA, Rossano Ferraris, cyber crime, CA Anti-Spam, rossano, anti-spam, antispam, malware, antivirus, trojans, antimalware, malicious, Obama, Barack

• Hide-and-go-seek trojan downloaders

  Malware authors are maximizing infection on compromised systems by improving ways in which trojan downloaders can pull additional malware onto systems. One common technique is to hide URLs inside trojan downloaders using encryption (among other smart... Posted Oct 24 2008, 12:39 AM by Zarestel Ferrer with | with no comments Tags: fakealert, malware, antivirus, win32/hopee.w, trojans, win32/sipay.m, downloaders, hopee, sipay, web server, win32/fakealert.gy, URLs

• Prevalence of Exploited PDFs

  While the threat landscape has changed dramatically over the past years, attackers are becoming increasingly aggressive in exploring ways to get into users’ system. A spammed email with an EXE attachment no longer penetrates the wider network or users... Posted Oct 05 2008, 11:59 PM by Methusela Cebrian Ferrer with | with 2 comment(s) Tags: security, vulnerability, malware, antivirus, trojans, PDF exploit, Pidief, CVE-2007-5020!exploit, PDF/Pidief, antimalware, malicious, PDF attacks