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Hurricane Irene Scam Hits Facebook

29

Aug

2011

Hurricane Irene surely turned New York City to “city that never sleeps” as it brought flood waters, knocked out power to more than 4 million people and was even responsible for at least 15 deaths in six states.What’s worse is that cybercriminals are taking advantage of the incident by spamming a fake video on Facebook.The […]

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KOOBFACE Propagates Via Torrent P2P File Sharing

18

Aug

2011

The KOOBFACE botnet became known for using popular social network sites as vector for propagation and abusing these platforms for malicious purposes. Currently, it has been observed that KOOBFACE does not actively propagate via social networks, but rather propagates via a torrent peer-to-peer network through Trojanized shared application files.Based on our research, we found a […]

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Sophos Security Threat Report Update reveals 2011’s top threats so far

02

Aug

2011

Sophos has just published its Mid-Year 2011 Security Threat Report [PDF]. Highlights of the report include the following: a 60% increase in malware over 2010, with Sophos seeing more than 150,000 new malware samples every day – that is one every 0.5 seconds. 19,000 malicious webpages are now identified daily, with 80% being pages on […]

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