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“exe” read backwards spells “malware”

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Aug

2011

RIGHT TO LEFT OVERRIDE (RLO) is a unicode control character (U+202E) that reverses the character reading order from the traditional left-to-right, to right-to-left. This is mainly used for right-to-left languages (such as Arabic or Hebrew). We reported this trick last year but it has resurfaced extensively in the past week to trick users into opening […]

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Interesting Snowflake

16

Jun

2011

There’s a WinRAR file floating around in the Internet named “2012????.rar”* (SHA1: 889cf7076d4c08637e8aeedf7a90dc4a3808f991), which can be downloaded or may be sent out as an attachment in an email message, that contains a program that claims to display beautiful snowflakes on your desktop. If you run the executable contained in the archive (file name “????.exe” – […]

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Scareware infection via Google Doodle

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May

2011

Google’s search results are pointing to malicious sites sometimes – this is common knowledge nowadays. A new way to spread malicious links though is to present infected search results as first hit after clicking on a Google Doodle. For example on holidays or special anniversaries, Google replaces its own logo with a Doodle. This is […]

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