Posts Tagged ‘downloaded file’

W32.Phopifas Cons Over 2.5 Million Clicks with LOL Links

Oct

2012

An ongoing social engineering attack on Skype and other instant messaging applications has been gathering momentum over the last week. The attack, which looks to have started around September 29, has to date conned over 2.5 million clicks from unsuspecting users. The attack uses the common social engineering tactic of posting a link to instant […]

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There’s nothing old school about viruses

Aug

2012

Recently, we discovered a new parasitic infection virus in the wild – Win32/Floxif – which specifically targets DLL files. Most of the attacks of this threat have been observed to come from a specific geographic region. Win32/Floxif replaces 5 bytes at the entry point of the infected file with a jmp instruction, which jumps directly […]

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Malware Wastes Paper, Triggers Printing and Ads

Jul

2012

We received several escalations earlier this month about some users experiencing a number of print jobs being sent to printers and print servers. This caused delays on deliveries because each printer is printing an average of about 300 pages. But what is it printing? The pages being printed, like the one below, are actually lines […]

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