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Fake AV 3 years later: still there, still not blocked

22

Dec

2012

You may want to open the first blog post we did on Fake AV in December 2009, three years ago, side by side with this post. See if you can spot the differences… fake antivirus pages in 2012 are nearly the same as they were three years ago and most AV solutions still fail to […]

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Flash-Based Fake Antivirus Software: Windows Risk Minimizer

23

Mar

2012

Fake antivirus software or "scareware" is nothing new, but these applications continue to get more sophisticated. We recently discovered a relatively new fake antivirus application called Windows Risk Minimizer. The fake antivirus software was promoted through spam sent from a popular webmail service. This is slightly unusual as normally fake antivirus infections arrive through drive-by […]

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New Mass Injection Wave of WordPress Websites on the Prowl

05

Mar

2012

The Websense® ThreatSeeker® Network has detected a new wave of mass-injections of a well-known exploit that we've been following in Security LabsTM for months. The majority of targets are Web sites hosted by the WordPress content management system. At the time of writing, more than 200,000 Web pages have been compromised, amounting to close to 30,000 […]

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