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A clearer picture of the CCleaner backdoor incident

19

Sep

2017

On Monday, Cisco and Piriform – the Avast-owned company behind the popular CCleaner utility – announced that certain versions of the software have been backdoored by hackers. In today’s update on the situation, Avast CEO Vince Steckler and CTO Ondrej Vlcek said that the hackers were likely already in the process of hacking into the […]

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Brazilian Masquerade

06

Feb

2013

What do you see here?A free AV product protecting a Windows XP machine, right? No, actually it?s malware ? a Brazilian Trojan banker coming via email and then using a masquerade to stay in the system. The malware is 386Kb only, written in Delphi, and comes via an email together with a bunch of many […]

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The end is near – Facebook’s day of Destruction

05

Nov

2011

T minus 8 hours until we see if the threats of the hacktivist group Anonymous are fulfilled. November 5 is the scheduled demise of Facebook, according to a YouTube “press release” published months ago, and since removed. Last August a rally cry went out to willing hacktivists or guys who want “to protect the freedom […]

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