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New banking Trojan horses and other events in January 2012

01

Feb

2012

The first month of this leap year did not offer any major surprises in terms of information security. However, Doctor Web’s anti-virus laboratory received samples of several new banking Trojan horses that turned out to be rather unusual. In addition, a new technique for distributing malicious links was discovered. Virus threats in January The file […]

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Malicious script blocks browsers on iPhone, iPad and iPod touch

27

Oct

2011

Doctor Web’s engineers received a number of requests from iPad users who were troubled by blocking pop-up windows displayed as they visited certain sites in Safari and other browsers. Investigation into the problem revealed that pop-ups were brought up by malicious JavaScript code embedded into web-pages by criminals. Earlier Doctor Web issued a report about […]

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Malware compromising BIOS and other September virus events

03

Oct

2011

September 2011 was relatively quiet and did not bring any major burst of viral activity; apparently, malware makers, back from summer vacation, decided to devote themselves to more pragmatic pursuits. However, the month did see the discovery of a Trojan horse of unique architecture capable of infecting BIOS. Also a new backdoor for Mac OS […]

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