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Pregnant Kate Middleton doll leads to malware infection for AOL users

20

Dec

2011

Take care if you visit the main page of AOL UK today – a story about Kate Middleton being pregnant (or rather a doll of a pregnant Duchess of Cambridge) has a nasty sting in its tail. The story, featured prominently on AOL’s main webpage, points to a different website – MyDaily.co.uk – another part […]

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Malware attack poses as bloody photos of Gaddafi’s death

21

Oct

2011

The death of Libyan dictator Colonel Gaddafi has almost inevitably resulted in cybercriminals taking advantage of the news story, and the general public’s seeming interest in viewing ghoulish photos and videos of his last moments. Malicious hackers have spammed out an attack posing as pictures of Gaddafi’s death, tricking users into believing that they came […]

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MySQL.com hacked for second time in a year – SQL injection to blame?

27

Sep

2011

The MySQL.com website has been struck by cybercriminals, who hacked their way in to serve up malicious code to visiting computers. Simply visiting the home page of the website, initiated a Java exploit that downloaded and executed malicious code on visiting Windows computers. No user interaction was required for PCs to become infected. The hack […]

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