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Criminals Behind Rogue AV Leverage on Google

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Mar

2012

Certain compromised pages, which are search engine optimized, are found in the wild and accessible via popular search engines like Google and Bing. There pages were found to direct the user to a site where a faux scan is performed on the affected system-typical of rogue AV. What is atypical about the said scan, however, […]

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New zero-day vulnerabilities discovered in Flash Player

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Dec

2011

What has been found?Two new vulnerabilities in Adobe’s ubiquitous Flash Player have been discovered and allegedly can be used to an arbitrary code execution remotely. Essentially these vulnerabilities could allow someone to remotely seize control of a PC without the consent of the owner.Who discovered these exploits? The exploits were discovered by a Russian vulnerability research […]

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Hot on the trail of Duqu with Microsoft’s MAPP

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Nov

2011

The Duqu malware has raised the specter of Stuxnet II, with some in the security community claiming that this new Trojan is a reverse-engineered copy of Stuxnet – the infamous malware that may have sold more newspapers than it damaged nuclear centrifuges. Unlike Stuxnet, Duqu is designed to steal data from the targeted organization, not […]

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