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Fake anti-virus cloaks itself to appear to be Microsoft Update

09

Jun

2011

We are seeing the criminals behind fake anti-virus continuing to customize their social engineering attacks to be more believable to users and presumably more successful. Last week I wrote about fake Firefox malware warnings leading users to rogue security software. This week they’ve started to imitate Microsoft Update. The page is nearly an exact replica […]

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LinkedIn Phish – So Easy to Avoid

03

Jun

2011

Security vendor Trusteer blogged about a wave of fake LinkedIn emails that download malware on to your computer. The images Trusteer shows of the phish demonstrate how tricky the criminals are and how authentic the message looks, yet just yesterday I shared with you a foolproof method to prevent yourself from falling victim to such […]

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Apple to malware authors: Tag, you’re It!

02

Jun

2011

Last night the malware authors behind the Mac Guard fake anti-virus changed their methods to bypass the updates Apple released yesterday afternoon to protect OS X Snow Leopard users. Apple fired back shortly after 2 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time today with an update to XProtect. Computers that have Apple update 2011-003 for Snow Leopard now […]

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