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Malicious App Sends Bogus Facebook Warnings

07

Jun

2012

Today, I received a couple of requests from my friends on Facebook. Each included the phrase “WARNING FROM FACEBOOK TEAM.“ The requests looked suspicious because they came from friends, and the Facebook team never sends such warnings. A little quick analysis found that those requests were actually sent from a fake application called hxxp://apps.facebook.com/secureverifyssdc/. Here […]

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More time to clean up the DNSChanger malware

09

Mar

2012

We wrote about the DNSChanger malware and about the Avira tool which detects if your computer’s DNS settings were altered and restores the defaults in case they were changed by the malware. The FBI initially announced that the servers which were replacing the malicious ones will be shut down on March 8, 2012. This is […]

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Kelihos/Hlux botnet returns with new techniques

31

Jan

2012

It has been four months since Microsoft and Kaspersky Lab announced the disruption of Kelihos/Hlux botnet. The sinkholing method that was used has its advantages — it is possible to disable a botnet rather quickly without taking control over the infrastructure.However,as this particular case showed, it is not very effective if the botnet’s masters are […]

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