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August 2013 Virus Activity Overview

Sep

2013

In August, Doctor Web specialists analysed a myriad of new malware. At the beginning of the month, they discovered a malicious program that compromised sites making use of popular CMSs. In the second half of August, a Trojan-Spy was found that represents a serious risk to Linux machines. Viruses According to the statistical information collected […]

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New Trojan compromises blog sites in Russia and other countries

Aug

2013

Russian anti-virus company Doctor Web is warning users about the malicious program Trojan.WPCracker.1 designed to compromise blogs and sites managed with popular CMSs such as WordPress. With the Trojan, attackers can change the content of blogs or infect them with other malware that will threaten future visitors. The upsurge of attacks on websites noted by […]

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Fake Flash Player installer spreads via Twitter and Facebook

Jul

2013

Recently we identified a threat which uses Twitter and Facebook to spread. The origin of the infection begins by clicking malicious tweets or Facebook posts.After clicking a tweet similar to the figure below, the user is redirected to a webpage, which asks to download and install Adobe Flash Player. The translation of the marked text […]

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