Russian anti-virus company Doctor Web is warning users about a malicious program dubbed BackDoor.Finder which fakes search result pages and redirects browsers to bogus websites. When launched in an infected system, BackDoor.Finder creates a copy of itself in the current user’s % APPDATA% folder and makes corresponding changes in the branch of the Windows registry […]
The news of the outbreak of BackDoor.Flashback.39 that has infected over 650 000 computers running Mac OS X quickly spread throughout the world, causing a strong public response. The Russian anti-virus company Doctor Web that was the first to issue a warning concerning this threat presents the brief BackDoor.Flashback.39 outbreak chronology. February 2012 Oracle released […]
This past weekend a couple of spam-based malware attacks caught my attention: I was alerted to the first one via one of my favorite security blogs: Gary Warner’s Cybercrime and Doing Time. (Although his posts have decreased in frequency this year, they’re well worth reading when they do come out.) He largely focuses on spam, […]
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