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Be advised cybercriminals are at it again, leveraging the popularity of Facebook and YouTube to scam consumers.We have seen several scams in the past spreading through Facebook promising of some leaked video of celebrities, or free Facebook T-shirts etc. The malware authors are making money by pay-per-click with these techniques. Users are tricked into clicking […]

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As the WORM_VOBFUS story unfolds, new variants are surfacing, including one that connects to a new site and uses Google and MSN to name its dropped files.We recently reported on the wave of WORM_VOBFUS variants that emerged in the wild last November. We have been monitoring the said threat and found out that its latest […]

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Targeted Attack Uses Recent Adobe Flash Player Vulnerability (CVE-2012-0779) Reports of a targeted attack surfaced recently. One such attack arrives as an email message that trick users into executing a malicious attachment. The malicious attachment, as expected, is a file that exploits CVE-2012-0779, found in several versions of Adobe Flash Player. Exploitation results to a […]

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