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Beware of MySpace JPG File Downloader - GTALK Messenger Infection
The malware infection attack surface is increasing day by day. Recently, some of the infected machines with different malware classes such as file downloader are using GTALK for downloading JPG based files from the internet. Actually this file is not a JPG file but a zipped file that contains an ex ...
Posted 15 December 2009 by Aditya K Sood
tags: Malware , Messenger
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“Black Screen of Death” Reports
Oh, wow – sometimes the power of social media, the blogs and the internet can backfire. I guess in the meantime you have seen the claims by Prevx that approx. 80 million of PCs are affected by the Black Screen of Death problems supposedly caused by our November Security Updates. This caused (a ...
Posted 01 December 2009 by Roger Halbheer
tags: microsoft , malware , black screen
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Blackhats Unleash Fake Blog Campaign Spreading Rogue AV
In September, eSoft reported as many as 720,000 compromised sites hosting fake blog pages and being used to distribute rogue anti-virus programmes. Many of these sites are still active and continue to plague searches with malicious results. Earlier today, Cyveillance issued this report of a nearl ...
Posted 18 November 2009 by Patrick Walsh
tags: web security , compromised sites , rogue AV , malware
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Embedded open type fonts - The risk lurking up
The web is getting a playground for different type of attacks. There is lot of talks going around about Microsoft EOT fonts realm which are being used for launching different type of attacks. Recently I gave a talk at the Excalibur Conference, China in which I talked about launching a CSRF attack i ...
Posted 13 November 2009 by Aditya K Sood
tags: Web , Malware , CSRF , microsoft
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