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New ways to distribute rogueware

Posted by Luis Corrons at  21 November 08 11:13     Nowadays, the most prevalent infections belong to rogueware, which are those fake antivirus, antispyware or anti-anything that try to take the money from the users by making them pay to remove nonexistent threats. As we showed recently, they are making

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As stock market drops malware rises

Posted by Ryan Sherstobitoff at  21 November 08 07:42     As the U.S. stock market indexes dramatically declined in September, cybercriminals began organizing their efforts to sustain profitability. While the stock market shows a sharp declining trend, malware has a very different trend which indicates growth

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Fake Email of the Federal Police of Brazil (Computer crimes investigation unit)

Posted by Xabier Francisco at  18 November 08 06:19     This fake email seems to be sent from the Computer crimes investigation unit of the Brazilian federal police department. It pretends to frighten users by accussing them of having accessed to ilegal websites from their computer and entices them to view

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Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

Posted by Luis Corrons at  14 October 08 05:41     During the last months I’ve been asked the same question almost every day: why are there so many rogueware infections? We have already published some data in the blog, as well as in the 2008 Q3 Report. The number of infections are somehow relevant:

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The Emergence of Crimeware as a Service (CaaS)

Posted by Ryan Sherstobitoff at  30 September 08 09:41     As the malware threat landscape continues to evolve, hackers are constantly changing techniques to counteract detection technologies vendors develop. By using sophisticated methods to evade antivirus technologies, hackers continue to be relentless in

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VML, Viking and Lineage... Any further bids?

Posted by egonzalez at  20 October 06 05:12     We have been aware of a site hosting a page that exploits the VML vulnerability. Through this exploit, it downloads a W32/Viking variant. This Viking downloads several Trj/Lineage variants. And finally, these Lineage variants are responsible for gathering

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Spam as a financial tool

Posted by Luis Corrons at  19 October 06 03:12     Everyone knows that spam is used to advertise all kind of products and that hackers use it in other ways (installing malware through exploits, etc.). The message usually links to an external site, but it's not always like that. We have recently seen

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