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Microsoft study asserts social engineering more common than exploitation

20

May

2011

Earlier this week Microsoft posted a blog entry showing statistics from their SmartScreen technology built into Internet Explorer (IE) 7, 8 and 9. Their conclusions? One in every 14 downloads is malicious (of the malicious files that Microsoft is aware of) and this represents between two and five million malware attacks per day against IE […]

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India’s DNA e-newspaper website infected with fake antivirus campaign

16

May

2011

DNA (Daily News and Analysis) is an Indian daily English language newspaper. According to Wikipedia, DNA ranks 8th among the top ten English dailies in India. Recently, the Zscaler solution was blocking access to this site, as it contained malicious content. Here is the homepage of this website: The ‘Today’s E-newspaper’ link (circled above) is […]

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The most common obfuscation techniques in Fake AV pages

15

May

2011

We have shown some of the heavy JavaScript obfucation techniques used by Fake AV pages, but the vast majority of such pages use lighter, yet effective techniques. Those techniques are aimed at bypassing detection devices (IDS, antivirus, etc.), rather than hiding the source code. The creators focus on making life difficult for those tasked with […]

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