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From flicks to clicks: Mac OS X Trojan Adware.Yontoo infects via fake codec

22

Mar

2013

Mac users need to stay alert when clicking around for movie trailers because a well-tried malware ploy has been adapted from Windows to target Apple OS X, tricking users into downloading a new codec to watch a movie trailer. If you click Play on an infected website you will see something like this: The user, […]

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New Year, New Old Threats

09

Jan

2013

If there’s one thing we have to remember about certain Web threats-specifically those related to social networking and social media sites-and email threats, it is this: oftentimes, they come back to haunt us.Case in point, we have found an old Facebook scam, which dates back from two years ago, making rounds again and a spam–phishing ploy […]

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PayPal phishing scams – take care of yourself online this Christmas

05

Dec

2012

Australian PayPal users are being targeted in what is a now-typical pattern of phishing against the global payment service.The trick is short and simple: you receive an email “acknowledging” a smallish payment. It’s $79 to an eBay advertising service in our example:You know you didn’t spend that money yourself. Perhaps, at this time of the […]

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