It’s here, folks! If the replaced DNSChanger servers don’t get another deadline extension, more than 500000 computers may not be able to reach their configured DNS service after next Monday, July 9th, 2012. In other words, it will be practically impossible for them to use them to surf the Internet using the human friendly domain […]
A few months ago I wrote a fairly short comment piece for Virus Bulletin on how some popular posts to Facebook that invite you to make use of your personal data might be useful to scammers and others as part of some sort of data aggregation attack. An example I included was a popular posting […]
Here's a quick summary of the PREFETCH and INF ploys I mentioned in a separate blog here. These are alternatives (or supplements) used by support scammers from India to the Event Viewer and ASSOC/CLSID ploys also used to "prove" to a victim that their system is infected with malware or has other security/integrity problems. The "Prefetch" command shows […]
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