Posts Tagged ‘Brazil’

Malicious URLs in .lc zone

Jul

2013

While analyzing suspicious URLs I found out that more and more malicious URLs are coming from .lc domain, which formally belongs to Santa Lucia country located in in the eastern Caribbean Sea.Our statistics confirm this trend. Cybercriminals from different places of the world are actively using this domain, including cybercriminals from Brazil abusing free Web […]

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Be aware of fake Facebook extensions

May

2013

We have received from our partners in the AV industry reports about malicious browser extensions trying to hijack Facebook profiles. According to Microsoft, this threat was first discovered in Brazil but because of the social engineering techniques it uses, it spread fast in other countries and languages as well. All Avira products detect it as […]

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The end of MSN Messenger, the beginning of attacks

Mar

2013

Microsoft recently announced the shutdown of its popular IM client MSN Messenger, which will be replaced by Skype, but its end represents the beginning of malicious attacks posing as the installer of the software. Cybercriminals already started to use this fact in their attacks, registering malicious domains, buying sponsored links on search engines, tricking users […]

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