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Win32.Rmnet.16 attacks UK and Australia

14

May

2012

In April 2012 the Russian IT security company Doctor Web already reported that a botnet created by hackers using the Win32.Rmnet.12 virus exceeded one million infected hosts. Doctor Web’s virus analysts have recently noted the spread of the new virus’s modification dubbed Win32.Rmnet.16. Its main difference from the previous version is a digital signature used […]

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Criminals Behind Rogue AV Leverage on Google

19

Mar

2012

Certain compromised pages, which are search engine optimized, are found in the wild and accessible via popular search engines like Google and Bing. There pages were found to direct the user to a site where a faux scan is performed on the affected system-typical of rogue AV. What is atypical about the said scan, however, […]

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Surprising hack found on multiple sites

15

Mar

2012

From the “It-could-happen-to-you” file: We innocently clicked on a link which was promoted today on a trustworthy company’s Facebook page. To our surprise, avast! blocked it as a malicious URL. When we attempted to open the URL, it was redirected to dumb.cn.mn which triggered the blocking action. The only content on dumb.cn.mm is one word […]

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