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Skypemageddon by bitcoining

05

Apr

2013

Is it a Skype day? Or maybe a Bitcoin one? Or maybe just both? I say this because right after I published my previous post about malware ongoing campaign on Skype, a mate from Venezuela sent me a screenshot of her Skype client with a similar campaign in terms of propagation but different in terms […]

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An avalanche in Skype

04

Apr

2013

There is a new malicious ongoing campaign on Skype. It?s active and kicking yet. The infection vector is via social engineering abusing infected Skype by sending massive messages to the contacts like these ones: i don’t think i will ever sleep again after seeing this photo http://www.goo.gl/XXXXX?image=IMG0540250-JPG tell me what you think of this picture […]

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Encryption Trojan attacks Spain and France

13

Mar

2013

Russian anti-virus company Doctor Web has registered an ongoing massive spread of the encryption malware Trojan.ArchiveLock across PCs outside Russia. The program, dubbed Trojan.ArchiveLock.20, is infecting increasingly more computers in France and Spain.Last August, Doctor Web issued a warning about Trojan.ArchiveLock encryption malware. This program uses the archiver WinRAR to encrypt files. To spread the […]

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