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More software-related searches lead to malware

01
Dec
2011

Spammers have done a very good job a hijacking web searches related to buying software online. More than 90% of search results for “buy Microsoft Windows” and similar searches, lead to fake stores on major search engines. Not much has been done by the search engines to clean up these search results. Since the beginning […]

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When scammers call you at home

09
Nov
2011

Scammers are always trying new ways to reach their targets to foil them into buying free software, sending credit card information, etc. Yesterday, they called me directly at home! I was working on my computer when I got a Skype call from an unknown caller with a Skype ID of “NOTIFICATION® URGENT – WWW.SWNOW.COM – UPGRADE […]

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Microsoft publishes a workaround for Duqu Malware

04
Nov
2011

We have written already about Stuxnet v2 or TR/Duqu and we mentioned that Avira detects it TR/Spy.Duqu.A and TR/Duqu.A.1. This malware uses a vulnerability in a Microsoft Windows component, the TrueType font parsing engine. The vulnerability is caused when the Windows kernel-mode driver win32k.sys fails to properly handle the TrueType font type. An attacker who […]

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