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A new ransomware trojan variant with children pornography

13

May

2013

We wrote about the ransomware trojan (aka BKA Trojan) and its new methods of blackmailing people to pay: claim in the name of an official institution that the user did something illegal, like storing children pornography pictures on his computer. The new variant of the BKA trojan attempts to blackmail the owners of infected computers […]

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Popular Media Sites Involved in Mass Compromise

09

May

2013

Today, Zscaler identified yet another mass website compromise, this one impacting a number of popular media sites, including two radio stations in Washington, DC – Federal News Radio and WTOP. It’s not clear if all of the sites impacted were leveraging a common backend platform that may have led to the compromise. Sadly, mass compromises […]

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Meet the new paid-archive malware families

07

May

2013

In a previous post, “Fake apps: Behind the effective social strategy of fraudulent paid-archives,” we exposed the social engineering technique behind Win32/Pameseg – our detection for a family of “paid-archives.” We described the use of “low-ball” techniques and explained how users are led to believe they are making an informed choice. However, the choice ultimately leads to […]

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