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Malware distribution using fake YouTube pages

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Jul

2011

Attackers often create fake YouTube pages in an effort to lure a victim into downloading malicious binaries. During our research, we recently found an example of such a site. When a victim visits the page, a security warning will pop up saying “The application’s digital signature cannot be verified. Do you want to run the […]

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Fake webcam plugin goes rampant

26

Jun

2011

I uncovered a very large number of sites that are pushing malware using a smart disguise.Webcams sometime ask the user to install a program in order to view them. This is exactly what the creators of those malicious pages are banking on. Except that users will install a Trojan on their computers instead.Some of the […]

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Malware campaign uses direct injection of Java exploit code

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Jun

2011

Our ThreatSeeker® Network is constantly on the lookout to protect our customers from malicious attacks. Recently, it has detected a Rogue AV campaign that directly attacks the user's system instead of first redirecting to a dedicated attack server. Websense customers are protected from this attack by ACE, our Advanced Classification Engine. Attackers usually compromise web pages […]

Category Security Written by Websense 0 Comments

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