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Ransomware: Extorting Money by Panic and Pressure

25

Dec

2012

We have blogged in the past about Ransomware being a growing menace and that ONE SHOULD NOT PAY RANSOM if affected. Ransomware has now raised its ugly head up once again. Writers of Trojan.Ransomlock.G (a.k.a. Reveton) have updated their locking screen to induce panic and to blackmail the user into paying ransom.Recently, blogger Kafeine found […]

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Risky gaming with ZeuS and WordPress

10

Apr

2012

Assassinscreedfrance.fr, a French fan site for the wildly popular computer game, is still infected. For over 8 weeks, the site has been infected with a Trojan java script redirector that sends visitors to a Russian malware site and connects them to a ZeuS powered botnet. The infection was last confirmed by the AVAST Virus Lab […]

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McDonald’s Facebook scam: Happy Birthday to…Donald?

17

Oct

2011

I’m sure a McDonald’s themed Facebook scam seemed like a good idea to somebody at the time, but wow is this one all over the place. It’s your typical “Click here to Like”, “Post a spam comment saying how good this is” then “do one of these offers” affair. However, there are many things about […]

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