AVG Internet Security 2012 released
AVG announced the availability of AVG Internet Security 2012, the latest edition of its internet security software. In addition to AVG’s multi-layered protection, …
Malicious infections enter 99% of enterprise networks
There is a significant gap in today’s enterprise IT defenses, as advanced malware and targeted attacks are easily evading traditional defenses, such as firewalls, …
2011: Year of the hack
In a year that IT security experts have labeled the “Year of the Hack,” Bit9’s endpoint survey of 765 IT executives revealed that Advanced Persistent Threat …
Morto worm spreads via RDP, brute-forces Administrator accounts
There’s a new worm in town and it’s the first one that spreads by taking advantage of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). “Once a machine gets infected, the …
Fake Facebook friend request, now with hidden iFrame
A slight variation of last week’s Facebook friend request spam email campaign has been spotted targeting the social network’s users, and this one employs a …
Google search results much cleaner than in 2010
It used to be that among the first ten pages of search results for popular terms, up to 90 percent of the offered links would take the users to a malicious page serving …
Illegal keygen for well-known AV solution leads to infection
An illegal key generator for the recently released latest version of the TrustPort Internet Security solution brings big trouble to unsuspecting users, warns BitDefender. …
Bitcoin mining botnet also used for DDoS attacks
A recently discovered P2P Bitcoin mining botnet has acquired DDoS capabilities, warns Kaspersky Lab expert Tillmann Werner. It’s main reason of existence has so far been …
Zeus rival boasts of eluding tracker services, fails
Kaspersky Lab expert Jorge Mieres wrote yesterday about Ice IX – the first crimeware based on the leaked Zeus source code. “Ice IX Botnet is the first new …
Bogus emails delivering scanned documents carry malware
Emails posing as scanned documents sent from a Xerox WorkCentre Pro photocopier are again being sent out by malware peddlers, warns Sophos. This is not the first time that …
Install one Trojan, get three more
Downloader Trojans are often used by cyber crooks to thoroughly infect systems in order to extract anything that might be of value to them. Trojan.Badlib is a particularly …
Fake Facebook friend request email leads to malware
Facebook users are once again being targeted with fake emails purportedly coming from the social network, alerting them to a friend request. A click on the offered …
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