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Facebook and Youtube phishing emails claim that you’ve sent too many emails

05

Dec

2011

It is not the first time when we see phishing emails targeting Facebook users. It is also quite normal to see brands like Facebook, Google, Twitter and others used to advertised online pharmacies. Actually, we have blogged many times about several attempts to do this. Now, to increase the sense of urgency, the email comes […]

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Holiday phishing season is starting

01

Dec

2011

As in previous years, we are used to see a peak in the phishing attacks starting at the beginning of December and ending in the middle of January. If beginning of December makes perfectly sense, you might have asked yourself why middle of January. Because then people send back the presents they didn’t want to […]

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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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