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New Trojan horse threatens Facebook users

Feb

2012

Doctor Web-the Russian anti-virus vendor-warns users of a Trojan.OneX program that uses infected machines to send spam via Facebook and messaging clients. Currently, two modifications of this Trojan horse with similar features are found regularly in the wild. Given the spreading scheme the number of victims can be extremely large. Trojan.OneX runs only under 32-bit […]

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New banking Trojan horses and other events in January 2012

Feb

2012

The first month of this leap year did not offer any major surprises in terms of information security. However, Doctor Web’s anti-virus laboratory received samples of several new banking Trojan horses that turned out to be rather unusual. In addition, a new technique for distributing malicious links was discovered. Virus threats in January The file […]

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Leveson phone hacking inquiry interrupted.. by a Trojan horse

Nov

2011

The first day of an inquiry into phone hacking by the British media was briefly interrupted today, by a Trojan horse. David Sherborne, a QC representing phone hacking victims, interrupted the Leveson Inquiry at the High Court in London to reveal that his computer was infected by a data-stealing Trojan horse. Sherborne, who represents celebrities […]

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New Trojan horse threatens Facebook users

New banking Trojan horses and other events in January 2012

Leveson phone hacking inquiry interrupted.. by a Trojan horse

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