Posts Tagged ‘malicious activity’

Special Delivery: Attack Toolkits Bring Malware to Your Door

Aug

2012

In the latest edition of the Threat Intelligence Report, we take a look at how Web attack toolkits are one of the largest risks to Internet security out there today. But unlike viruses, Trojans, and worms, they’re not a threat to an end-user in the traditional sense. Attack toolkits are more akin to a pizza […]

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AVG CodeWord: False Positives

Jul

2012

Any user with a casual passing interest in IT security will at some stage encounter the paradoxically named expression ‘false positive’. Not quite the tautological twist that it might at first sound like, a false positive is the term we use to describe the “false” identification of a piece of software code as a “positive” […]

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Tibetan-themed Campaign Pushes Hybridized Malware

Apr

2012

In our previous blog, we focused on the emergence of hybridized malware, in which malware arrives already infected by a file infector. In effect, there are two different malware families that will run on the infected system. In this scenario, attackers are able to maximize system compromise by deploying two different payloads in one execution, […]

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