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Recent news reports, for example, warned users that they should get rid of adware apps Mintcast 3.0.1 and Shell&Services, which not only display unwanted pop-up ads, but also switch off safe browsing in Firefox. Of course this opens up your computer to all kinds of online threats. Called PUPs (potentially unwanted programs) in security lingo, […]

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The early detection of cyber threats has long been one of the biggest goals for the IT security sector. The rapid evolution of the different types of cyber-attacks has rendered the traditional detection systems helpless to differentiate between, and detect, attack such as advanced persistent threats (APT), which are digital attacks directed at certain systems […]

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Fake Flash updates are leveraged as a very popular trick amongst attackers to fool users into downloading and installing malware. This week we found a three websites distributing Win32.Sanity.N malware disguised as Flash updates: hxxp://kivancoldu.com/, redirects to hxxp://click-videox.com/ http://kivancoldu.com on 05/02/2013 hxxp://fastcekim.com/, redirects to hxxp://click-videox.com/ hxxp://kivanctatlitug.tk/ d(down) hxxp://kivanctatlitug.tk/ The fake warning at the top of […]

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