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Fake Flash player on DropBox

05

May

2013

Fake Flash updates are leveraged as a very popular trick amongst attackers to fool users into downloading and installing malware. This week we found a three websites distributing Win32.Sanity.N malware disguised as Flash updates: hxxp://kivancoldu.com/, redirects to hxxp://click-videox.com/ http://kivancoldu.com on 05/02/2013 hxxp://fastcekim.com/, redirects to hxxp://click-videox.com/ hxxp://kivanctatlitug.tk/ d(down) hxxp://kivanctatlitug.tk/ The fake warning at the top of […]

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MSRT November ’12 – Weelsof around the world

05

Dec

2012

Win32/Weelsof is part of a large malware family called ransomware, which is different from your traditional trojans and worms. Ransomware’s main goal is to financially benefit from every infected user and force them to pay. We included Win32/Weelsof in our November release of the Malicious Software Removal Tool. Malware entry point The user can be […]

Category General Written by Microsoft Malware Protection Center 0 Comments

Newest Windows Version Runs Oldest Malware Still in Wildcore

07

Nov

2012

Ever since the release of Windows 8, one of the key marketing points of the new OS made in Redmond was built-in safety. Given that we’re a curious bunch of people here in the Labs, we decided to take an Enterprise version of Win 8 for a spin and see for ourselves how it performs […]

Category General Written by BitDefender Labs 0 Comments

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