Posts Tagged ‘system users’

New Ransomware Plays Its Victims an Audio File, Over and Over and Over.

Oct

2012

Ransomware continuously evolves and updates its social engineering tactics to trick users into paying money to the cybercriminals.The samples we’re seeing today not only leverage the Federal Bureau of Investigation (or any police authority for that matter), but on this occasion also use a non-malicious .MP3 file!This audio file repeatedly informs users that their system […]

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Bitcoin Miner with Black Hat SEO Poisoning Campaign

Dec

2011

Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer currency exchange system that features a predictable currency rate. The generation of Bitcoin currency is controlled by an algorithm created by Japanese researcher Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008. Bitcoin system users are essentially "mining" for Bitcoins using their computers CPU power. Today, because of the intrinsic characteristics of the Bitcoin-generating algorithm, calculating new […]

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Apple Issues Safari Security Updates

Jul

2011

Hot on the heels of OS X Lion, released today, Apple has issued a new version of Safari, which includes some new features specific to Lion, but also contains dozens of security fixes. Safari 5.1 is included with Lion, and available for Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6), and Safari 5.0.6 is available for Leopard […]

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