Posts Tagged ‘microsoft update’

Joe’s Garage (SMB): Most Likely to be Pwned by RDP

Mar

2012

Last week, we advised readers to apply Microsoft update MS12-020 sooner than later. For those of you that have — good work. And if you haven’t yet applied the patch — stop delaying. Ever since MS12-020 was released, there’s been a flurry of activity attempting to “weaponize” the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) vulnerability. The race […]

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MSRT July 2011: Targeting web redirector malware

Jul

2011

The Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) targets two prevalent families in this July 2011 release, Win32/Tracur and Win32/Dursg. Both families share common functionality that monitors user web search queries and redirects to a malicious URL to display advertisements or download more malware. It affects users of web browsers such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and […]

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Fake anti-virus cloaks itself to appear to be Microsoft Update

Jun

2011

We are seeing the criminals behind fake anti-virus continuing to customize their social engineering attacks to be more believable to users and presumably more successful. Last week I wrote about fake Firefox malware warnings leading users to rogue security software. This week they’ve started to imitate Microsoft Update. The page is nearly an exact replica […]

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