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Facebook application endangers security

06

Feb

2013

Russian anti-virus company Doctor Web is warning users that malware is being spread in large numbers by means of a Facebook application that enables criminals to embed arbitrary HTML code in the site’s web pages. To spread Trojans, criminals have created bogus thematic groups in which links that appear to lead to video clips actually […]

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January 2013 virus activity review from Doctor Web

04

Feb

2013

The first month of 2013 sprang no surprises. Apparently, virus makers were slow to get back to work after the Christmas holidays. Another outbreak of Trojan.Mayachok programs became the main trend in January which also saw a number of new threats to Windows and Android. Viruses Trojan.Mayachok.2 became the undisputed leader among malware detected by […]

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Unexpected reboot: Necurs

08

Dec

2012

Necurs is a prevalent threat in the wild at the moment – variants of Necurs were reported on 83,427 unique machines during the month of November 2012. Necurs is mostly distributed by drive-by download. This means that you might be silently infected by Necurs when you visit websites that have been compromised by exploit kits such as Blackhole. So […]

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