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Rogueware with new Ransomware Technology™

Posted by Sean-Paul Correll at  08 October 09 01:05     The criminals behind Rogueware attacks are becoming increasingly aggressive in their approach to make money. We recently stumbled across a sample ( Adware/TotalSecurity2009 ) which uses a ransomware technique to improve its sales. Once the computer becomes

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Live Demo: Banking Trojans

Posted by Sean-Paul Correll at  09 September 09 12:09     Banking Trojans are one of the most prevalent Malware species in the threat landscape today. Malware authors aim to keep infections live and undetected long enough so that they can get what they are really after: money. Financial motivations lead malware

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Zero day in MSVIDCTL.DLL

Posted by Luis Corrons at  08 July 09 09:21     A couple of days ago we started spotting a new vulnerability affecting Microsoft Video ActiveX Control. Even though it's been said there are thousands of web sites affected, they are only a few dozens and most of them are in China: Anyway, it is a

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New Blackhat SEO attack exploits vulnerabilities in Wordpress to distribute rogue antivirus software

Posted by Sean-Paul Correll at  23 April 09 06:50     Over the past week we have seen a new Blackhat SEO technique emerge to exploit vulnerabilities in the popular Wordpress blog software. Two of the sites we identified were TheWorkBuzz.com, a website owned and operated by Career Builder (CareerBuilder.com),

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