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Older Microsoft Internet Explorer Versions Are Still at Risk

10

Oct

2012

Microsoft Security Update MS12-063: Microsoft’s approach to user responsibility sees the company periodically releasing security updates to address newly identified vulnerability issues affecting users of the Internet Explorer (IE) web browser. The most recent of these is September’s Security Update MS12-063, which has been designed to permanently address a zero-day IE vulnerability. The vulnerability was […]

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‘System Progressive Protection’ Another Form of Fake AV

28

Sep

2012

System Progressive Protection, a new malware pretending to be antivirus software, first appeared a couple of days ago. It belongs to the Winwebsec family of rogue security products. The malware is distributed by drive-by downloads or is dropped and executed by another malware. It blocks its victims from accessing any other application on an infected […]

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Microsoft Windows Registry loaded with malware

18

Sep

2012

Nowadays it’s very common for threats to use rootkit techniques to hide malicious files on computer hard drive, but it’s not so common to hide actual payload in the Windows Registry and use malicious file as only a loader. The following sample has evolved a bit since we first saw this kind of thing but […]

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