Recently, we blogged about the file-infector virus known as W32.Virut and the botnet’s return to distributing new payloads. In the blog, we estimated that the Virut botnet currently consists of 308,000 unique Virut clients active in a single day. It was also noted that Virut had been observed distributing payloads with the functionality to send out […]
When fake AVs used to take the limelight, their user interface started from pretty-crappy-and-obviously-rogue-AV and ended up with a very convincing design. It took a while for the miscreants to get there, but they really poured some work in an attempt to perfect the design in order to get a wider victim-base. It looks like […]
It could have been a script from a B movie. Top military officials from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization fell victim to a cyber attack because they simply accepted a fake friend request on Facebook. In a tried and true attack, cyber criminals once again exploited users’ implicit an unquestioning trust on social networks by […]
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