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CAPTCHA solving farms headed for extinction?

Most employees in developed countries usually balk at the idea of doing a repetitive task for 8 hours a day for a low pay, so outsourcing simple (but monotonous) jobs has been …

Russian hacker offers 1.5m Facebook credentials for sale

What will Facebook do if the Russian hacker Kirllos’ claim that he has in his possession login credentials for 1.5 million Facebook accounts proves to be true? The …

National Health Service system infected with data-stealing worm

The not-so-new and easily detectable Qakbot worm has compromised over a thousand machines within the UK’s National Health Service computer system, say Symantec …

Fake fast food survey with cash reward leads to phishing site

Scammers often use the familiarity of a brand as a means of lessening the victims’ tendency to be cautious when perusing unsolicited emails. In this latest email scam, …

McAfee update cripples thousands of PCs

The misidentification of a legitimate Windows file as a virus and its subsequent deletion was what made Windows XP running computers all over the world enter in a continuous …

Zbot acquires file infection feature

A Zbot Trojan variant that has the ability to infect other files has been discovered recently. It searches for .exe files in predefined places and injects into them 512 bytes …

Spying the spy: How to turn Trojans against criminals

“Researchers do vulnerability research on so many various application, why not to do it on this one?” asked himself Andrzej Dereszowski, founder and director of …

So, you bought a fake AV. What happens next?

A Sunbelt researcher has had the “fortune” of having a relative fall for the scam, which gave him the opportunity to take a peak at the process following the …

Mozy online backup service

Mozy (mozy.com) is an online/cloud backup service for consumers and small businesses. Read on to see how it performs.

Escalation of pharma spam from Gmail accounts

A recent noticeable upsurge of spam massages coming from compromised Gmail accounts has led the unfortunate victims to speculate that there is a bug in the Gmail mobile …

Google shines a light on government requests

Among all the search engines and ISPs around the world, Google has taken the first step towards transparency when they revealed their Government Requests tool on Tuesday: …

Fake AV doorway pages in the spotlight

Fake AV has become a regular fixture of the threat landscape for quite some time now, and TrendLabs experts take a closer look at the different tactics employed on the …

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