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Fan of Twilight? Be Very Careful If You’re Looking Online For It

14

Jul

2012

If you like the Twilight series, be careful if you plan to do any “research” on it, or if you plan to visit the site of the series author (Stephenie Meyer). Her site is currently hacked, blacklisted, and redirecting users to the Blackhole Exploit Kit. You can see the results on the sitecheck:http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/results/www.stepheniemeyer.com/This is what […]

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Scareware on the Piggy-Back of ACAD/Medre.A

12

Jul

2012

There are always people who want to piggy-back on the achievements of others. After ESET warned the public against ACAD/Medre.A in two blogs here and here and issued a free standalone cleaner for remediation, there was always the possibility that drawing attention to the issue would result in the topic being misused for other purposes. While […]

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Malware That Pretends To Be Google

06

Jul

2012

Malware authors (AKA the criminals or the bad guys), use many advanced techniques to hide their activities. From encoding, to encrypting, to auto-generated random domains, conditional redirections and many other interesting methods.In the middle of all their advanced options, they also use simple techniques to confuse the end user to think that a malicious domain […]

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