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Ransomware Abusing Norton Logo

Jul

2013

There are reports in the media of a particular ransomware, a type of malware, using the official Symantec Norton logo to dupe victims into believing the ransomware is verified by Symantec. This is a common social engineering technique used by malware authors to deceive victims. It is not the first time that a security company’s […]

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Trojan.Ransomgerpo Criminal Arrested

Feb

2013

Spanish police have reported the arrest of an individual involved with a particular strain of police Ransomware known as Ransom.EY, detected by Symantec as Trojan.Ransomgerpo.This variant is one of the earliest active police Ransomware families, which Symantec has been tracking since at least July, 2011. The Trojan was distributed using drive by download techniques, in […]

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Be aware of fake Java patches for the zero-day exploits

Jan

2013

We and pretty much the rest of IT world, have written about the Java zero-day exploit, about the fast patch that Oracle release to remove some of the market pressure and also about the fact that such a quick move can only mean that even more bugs were probably introduced, which might lead to other […]

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