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Google Chrome hack earns security researcher $60,000

Mar

2012

A Russian security researcher has earned himself a tidy $60,000 by demonstrating how he could waltz past the security sandbox in Google’s Chrome browser to run unauthorised code on fully-patched Windows 7 computers. Sergey Glazunov uncovered a remote code execution vulnerability in Chrome, that could be used by malicious hackers and cybercriminals to install and […]

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Malware: ‘Scan from a HP OfficeJet’ attack spammed out widely

Feb

2012

SophosLabs is intercepting a widespread criminal campaign to infect innocent users’ computers. The attack has been spammed out widely, pretending to be an email containing a scan from an HP OfficeJet printer. The precise wording used in the dangerous emails’ subject lines, message body and attachment names can vary – but here are some examples: […]

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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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