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A new bot on the market: Beta Bot – It uses multilingual social engineering techniques to exploit the human user

May

2013

What does it do? When installed on a system, Beta Bot searches for a list of known security products it is said to target. Upon finding one of those programs installed, the bot starts its attacks as described later in the text. Doing so, it prepares itself to attack the av program by killing processes, […]

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Cruel Boston Marathon spam lures users to exploit pages

Apr

2013

You probably think the person or people behind the Boston Marathon bombing are reprehensible scum? Well, meet their cousins – the slimebags behind the latest malware-distributing spam run we have seen ramp-up overnight. Members of the AVG Web Threats Research team have discovered spam messages using the Boston Marathon explosion to lure potential victims to […]

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Zeus Now Setting its Sights on Japanese Online Banking Customers

Feb

2013

As we have blogged in the past, Zeus (Trojan.Zbot) and other banking Trojans have been a headache to online banking customers all over the world for years. Certain countries such as Japan have in the past escaped attacks from banking Trojans, perhaps due to the language barrier or some other unknown reason. As the National […]

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