Archive for the 'trojan' Category
08 17th, 2009
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Twitter has been spammed, DDoS’ed, and knocked offline, and now it has been used as the command center for a botnet. A researcher last week was looking for clues about the massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on Twitter found a Twitter profile that was being used to send updates and malware to bots in an […]
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08 12th, 2009
Andrew wrote an intriguing post today on
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A Domain Naming System (DNS)-changing Trojan targeting Macs is currently making the rounds disguised as MacCinema Installer (detected by Trend Micro as OSX_JAHLAV.D. This is the latest variant of OSX_JAHLAV.C, which was identified in June.
The Trojan is supposedly a QuickTime Player update with the file name QuickTimeUpdate.dmg. As with its earlier variants, users are prompted to download the malware when trying […]
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07 9th, 2009
Andrew wrote an intriguing post today on
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A little over three months ago, the whole IT sector was waiting with bated breath for April 1. The latest DOWNAD/Conficker variant–WORM_DOWNAD.KK–was poised to strike. We know that on that day, it would attempt to access 500 of 50,000 websites and download new malicious files. This led to fears–somewhat misplaced–that new, possibly damaging payloads could cause […]
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06 18th, 2009
Andrew wrote an intriguing post today on
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A new injection attack that redirects users’ Web search queries is in the wild, and researchers at Websense believe it may have already affected more than 40,000 sites. In a blog posted yesterday, Websense researchers indicated that more than 40,000 legitimate sites have been compromised with “obfuscated code that leads to a multilevel redirection attack, ending in […]
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06 3rd, 2009
Andrew wrote an intriguing post today on
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More than 40,000 websites worldwide have fallen under the spell of a sneaky piece of attack code that silently tries to install malware on the machines of people who visit them, security experts from Websense have warned. The mass attack has been dubbed Beladen because beladen.net is one of the internet domains used to unleash a […]
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05 29th, 2009
Andrew wrote an intriguing post today on
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Everyone now days is trying to make sure they stay safe while browsing the web for various reasons. The problem that is ever growing is that of the constant growth of malware infected websites that try to infect your computer when you simply visit those websites. They do everything from trying to steal your personal […]
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05 27th, 2009
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When you unbox a brand new computer, you presume that it’s lean, clean and pristine, right? The last thing you expect to find on a new system is malware. However, that’s one of the first things researchers at Kaspersky Labs found after purchasing and firing up a Companion Touch netbook, a $499 portable from M&A Technology. Kaspersky researcher […]
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05 25th, 2009
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Social networking site Facebook, which has been the target of several phishing and malware attacks during the past few months, is under the gun again. Researchers at email and Web security service provider AppRiver on Thursday spotted a phishing exploit on Facebook that is spreading across the community. The phish enables hackers to steal logon […]
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