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Doctor Web exposes 550 000 strong Mac botnet

05

Apr

2012

Doctor Web-the Russian anti-virus vendor-conducted a research to determine the scale of spreading of Trojan BackDoor.Flashback that infects computers running Mac OS X. Now BackDoor.Flashback botnet encompasses more than 550 000 infected machines, most of which are located in the United States and Canada. This once again refutes claims by some experts that there are […]

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Flash-Based Fake Antivirus Software: Windows Risk Minimizer

23

Mar

2012

Fake antivirus software or "scareware" is nothing new, but these applications continue to get more sophisticated. We recently discovered a relatively new fake antivirus application called Windows Risk Minimizer. The fake antivirus software was promoted through spam sent from a popular webmail service. This is slightly unusual as normally fake antivirus infections arrive through drive-by […]

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There’s a cream for that

12

Mar

2012

The other day, while previewing messages in my inbox, I saw a conspicuous message with the following parameters, typos included: To: (email address)CC: (email address),…Subject: Your ex sent me this pciture of you.Body:Hey (email address),Your ex sent me this picture claiming it’s you. Is it really so? You probaly should see a doctor:) They can […]

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