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Indian Online Users Enticed to Take the Bitter Red Pill of Truth

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Apr

2013

We recently observed a small spam campaign that was targeting random users. The campaign focused on users in India. Figure 1. Heatmap of compromised computers related to the spam campaignThe emails contained a malicious attachment, detected as Spyware.Redpill, which is used by the bad guys to steal confidential information.Spyware.Redpill is not new by any means; […]

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Watch Out for WORM_VOBFUS

28

Nov

2012

A wave of WORM_VOBFUS variants has recently emerged with some variants even spreading through Facebook. But based on initial analysis, this crop of WORM_VOBFUS presents no new routines. For good measure, users are encouraged to observe best practices such as disabling Autorun feature and updating their antivirus program with the latest pattern, just to name […]

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‘System Progressive Protection’ Another Form of Fake AV

28

Sep

2012

System Progressive Protection, a new malware pretending to be antivirus software, first appeared a couple of days ago. It belongs to the Winwebsec family of rogue security products. The malware is distributed by drive-by downloads or is dropped and executed by another malware. It blocks its victims from accessing any other application on an infected […]

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