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Fake Firefox warnings lead to scareware

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May

2011

Purveyors of fake security software don’t let much grass grow under their feet and continually make improvements to their social engineering lures. While most of the talk for the past month has been their move to Mac with fake Finder pop-ups that appear to scan your computer, they haven’t stopped innovating on Windows either. Their […]

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Vkontakte plagued by the same security issues as its cousin, Facebook

27

May

2011

The day of a security researcher usually starts looking for a lead worth investigating. This one is kind of lame – really – but one has to satisfy their curiosity. A malicious URL is spreading on Vkontakte (and other social sites), luring people into downloading a so-called picture: vaginatube.info/107508?_3xf6i4s4_13301.jpg Infected users are posting the URL […]

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MacDefender and its Many Faces

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May

2011

The recent MacDefender Trojan has been receiving “rebranding” facelifts since it came out. It has now been deployed as MacProtector, MacDetector, MacSecurity, Apple Security Center, and there are no doubt more iterations to come. The malware has been updated, and now sports an improved UI that looks like a native Mac OSX application, unlike the […]

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