Tuesday, August 16th, 2011
Several days ago, one of our customers submitted a sample (SHA1: fbe71968d4c5399c2906b56d9feadf19a35beb97, detected as TrojanDropper:Win32/Vundo.L). This trojan hijacks the hosts “vk.com” and “vkontakte.ru” (both social networking sites in Russia)and redirects them to 92.38.209.252, but achieves this in an unusual way.Source:https://blogs.technet.com/b/mmpc/archive/2011/08/10/can-we-believe-our-eyes.aspx
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Wednesday, June 15th, 2011
Google has released a list of security features being built into the upcoming Chrome 13 and includes Content Security Policy (CSP) and HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) implementations, certificate pinning and self-XSS filter.
The Content Security Policy (CSP) is a specification developed by Mozilla which aimed at providing a solution for ...
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Tuesday, April 12th, 2011
A new Trojan tries to extort money from users by convincing them to dial international telephone numbers to reactive Windows, a security researcher said today.
Once on a PC, the malware displays a message claiming that Windows is "locked" and must be reactivated, said Mikko Hypponen, the chief research officer of ...
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Tuesday, November 30th, 2010
Malware is all about money. Spyware stealthily captures keystrokes and sensitive data to compromise accounts. Phishing attacks lure users into unwittingly surrendering account credentials and other crucial information. Ransomware uses a much less subtle tactic of demanding the money directly in exchange for the safe return of your own data.
The ...
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Monday, January 25th, 2010
Named Win32.Worm.Zimuse.A, this new nasty claims to be an IQ Test but is really a worm that will create about 7-11 copies of itself and store them in critical areas of your Windows system and then destroy the first 50KB of the Master Boot Record (MBR) after X number of ...
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