Thursday, December 4th, 2008
Researchers at BitDefender have discovered a new type of malicious software that collects passwords for banking sites but targets only Firefox users.
The malware, which BitDefender dubbed "Trojan.PWS.ChromeInject.A" sits in Firefox's add-ons folder, said Viorel Canja, the head of BitDefender's lab. The malware runs when Firefox is started.
The malware uses JavaScript ...
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Sunday, November 30th, 2008
Google's social-networking website Orkut has been used to spread a malicious Trojan, says Websense.
According to an alert from the security firm, the hoax message, which has been received by a number of Orkut users and is written in Portuguese, looks like it comes from a lonely Orkut member looking for ...
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Thursday, November 27th, 2008
Websense Security Labs ThreatSeeker Network has discovered that malware authors are already using Christmas themes this year as a social engineering tactic, in an effort to gain control over compromised machines. This campaign uses email messages in the form of e-greetings, leading to supposed animated postcards. These actually lead to ...
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Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
The world of computer security can be a scary place for friends and foes alike. This weekend users' found their AVG software updated with a new virus definition file. Then they quickly found their computers crashing.
What was discovered was that the new virus definition file mistook user32.dll, a ...
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Thursday, November 6th, 2008
Yesterday evening amid the researching the Barack related malware our friends at The Register pointed out an interesting article on Craig Murphy’s blog.
Craig talks about how when he logged in to his admin account in WordPress he received a “High Risk Vulnerability Warning” from a spoofed WordPress domain. (The last ...
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