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MSRT thwarts rogues with just one scan

10

Oct

2012

Most rogue antivirus software displays an interface that is predominantly in English, with some presenting a few other European languages as well. However, this month one of the families added by MSRT is Win32/Onescan, a Korean fake antivirus scanner that is the most prevalent of the Asian language-based rogues. Recently we noticed that several […]

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A Facebook scam, end to end

05

Oct

2012

Just recently, I logged on to my Facebook account and saw that a couple of people on my Friends list had posted something about a free $250 gift card from Costco, similar to this: When you click the link, Facebook asks you if you’re sure that the link is not spam. If you choose “not […]

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MSIE 0day – continued (with a bit of Flash as well)

21

Sep

2012

While we were researching the websites currently serving the new Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) zero-day threat, we found that the new attack is being piggybacked on a slightly older attack aimed on industrial companies’ websites. The hacked legitimate websites contain on their main pages a hidden iframe. The July.html page contains code for loading a […]

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