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Forex website targeted – did cybercrooks find the weakest link in online money management services?

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Nov

2012

The Websense® ThreatSeeker® Network has detected that a FOREX trading website was injected with a malicious Java applet, which could install malware on the affected systems of the site's users. FOREX is the foreign exchange market where international currencies are traded, and nowadays, it's used by millions of people around the world. The targeted website […]

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An analysis of Dorkbot’s infection vectors (part 2)

21

Nov

2012

In part 1 of this series, we talked about Dorkbot and its spreading mechanisms that required user interaction. In this post, we’ll talk about how Dorkbot spreads automatically, via drive-by downloads and Autorun files. Spreading vectors not requiring user interaction: Drive-by downloads and Autorun files Dorkbot can also spread automatically, without user interaction. We recently […]

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High-profile, legitimate site contains malware

04

Sep

2012

Not only users visiting high-risk sites need avast! protection, but also, for example, visitors of the well-known site samsungimaging.net (the Samsung SMART CAMERA blog) were able to notice that their avast! protected them from a threat. Yesterday, on this site AVAST began to detect malicious Java content. The malicious file was called Gondvv.class, which is […]

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