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Easy Money: Program:Win32/Pameseg (part 2)

In the previous post, we gave an introduction to how file partnership programs work and how they make money off unsuspecting users by charging them for installing software that is actually free. In this post, we’ll walk you through a sample of these “paid archives”. The following “paid archive” simulates the appearance of the Adobe …

Adobe Flash Player security update.

Adobe has released a security patch for Adobe Flash Player that fixes several critical security vulnerabilities. Affected are all versions of Adobe Flash Player 10.3.183.7 and earlier for all supported operating systems (Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Solaris) as well as Adobe Flash Player 10.3.186.6 and earlier for the Android operating system.

Attackers could use these vulnerabilities …

Patching Flash – CVE-2011-2110 post-mortem

Last week I blogged about the CVE-2011-2110 Adobe Flash vulnerability being actively exploited in the wild. Adobe released its patch exactly a week ago (Tuesday, June 14) … I wanted to do a follow up to identify the patch rate within our enterprise customers.Within our last “State of the Web” quarterly report – we identified …

Adobe Flash Player updates released for all platforms

Adobe has released a warning for Flash Player 10.3.181.16 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Solaris, and Adobe Flash Player 10.3.185.22 and earlier versions for Android. These versions are affected by a cross-site scripting vulnerability (CVE-2011-2107) which could be used to take actions on a user’s behalf on any website or webmail provider, …

Adobe Flash security update for Windows, Mac, Android, Linux and Solaris users

It doesn’t matter if you run Windows, Mac, Linux, Solaris or even Android.. if Adobe goes public about a security vulnerability in its Flash product, you better install the patch to protect against the problem.

Adobe’s emergency patch was issued over the weekend to protect against a cross-site scripting vulnerability.

Targeted attacks could use the vulnerability to …

Koobface worm still spreading using social engineering attack vectors

The Koobface worm is not new to Internet users, but remains very active and continues spreading through different mediums using a variety of techniques. Last year, we have blogged about Koobface worm activity. We are still seeing this worm spreading via social engineering attacks. Attackers are creating fake malicious websites, which look like legitimate sites …