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Google Starts Malware Warning Service

21

Jul

2011

As announced on July 19, 2011, Google started a service that warns users of possible malware infection. According to Google‘s blog article, an investigation was started after observing abnormal traffic coming to Google whilst performing regular maintenance. The investigation revealed that the abnormal traffic came from PCs infected with a particular piece of malware. The […]

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Spammers and compromised accounts

14

Jul

2011

Our friends at Commtouch have blogged about something that is no surprise – spammers using compromised accounts vs. bots (their latest threat report is quite good and worth reading btw). While compromised email accounts (hotmail, yahoo, gmail, etc.) are not new, there is a little more to it: There was a massive takedown of a […]

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Popureb – a small rootkit with a big reputation

07

Jul

2011

There has been a lot of discussion in recent weeks about some new variants of the Popureb rootkit that clobber your Master Boot Record (MBR). Initial reports from Microsoft even suggested the only way to recover was to reinstall Windows, which fortunately is not true. SophosLabs Threat Researchers Mike Wood, Michele Freschi and Ahmed Zaki […]

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