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Fake AV business alive and kicking

27

Oct

2011

Since June 2011 we have seen a substantial decrease in the number of fake antivirus programs. Right now we are observing 10 000 daily attempts to infect users with Trojan-FakeAV; back in June the figures were 50-60,000. The daily number of attempted infections using Trojan-FakeAV in the past 5 months Nevertheless, new versions of this […]

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IPAbuseCheck Stats

27

Oct

2011

Last week, we announced our IPAbuseCheck lookup tool. We see lots of infected/abusive hosts on the Internet attempting to proxy abusive web transactions through our proxies. Rather than just ignoring these transactions, we’ve decided to provide this lookup utility for security professionals and organizations to query and identify abusive/infected hosts within their networks – based […]

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Goodbye, Steve Jobs

06

Oct

2011

Steve Jobs has died. Google has altered its home page in tribute: The words “Steve Jobs” link to apple.com: And Apple’s image of Jobs links to this message: It’s a rather moving tribute. It’s also a good security move on the part of Google. As soon as we heard the news, we started looking out […]

Category General Written by F-Secure Antivirus Research Weblog 0 Comments

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