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Fake AV operators continue to change the graphic interface design on their malicious creations. Clones we’ve seen recently include “XP Antispyware Pro 2013,” “XP Defender 2013,” “XP Security 2013″ and “XP Antivirus Pro 2013.” Download pages are detected by at least three AVG LinkScanner signatures. Since this is the time of year that legitimate AV … We spotted a family of Android malware that downloads apps and paid media files without users’ consent, leaving victims with unwanted charges. These are Trojanized versions of the legitimate weather forecast tool GoWeather and are detected by Trend Micro as ANDROIDOS_TROJMMarketPlay. During our research, we acquired three samples of this malware family. One of the samples … The Websense® ThreatSeeker® Network has detected a new wave of mass-injections of a well-known exploit that we've been following in Security LabsTM for months. The majority of targets are Web sites hosted by the WordPress content management system. At the time of writing, more than 200,000 Web pages have been compromised, amounting to close to 30,000 … The fake campaign is spreading via Facebook walls around the globe. The texts used in the announcements are English, which increases the chance that a large number of Facebook users accept the “bait message”. Starbucks has been used in a similar campaign already last year and they warned their customers not to … In the past we’ve reported about one-click billing fraud schemes starting to target smartphone users. The scheme, as its name suggests, tricks a victim into registering and paying for a certain service after being falsely led to a specific website. The past attack we saw involved a website wherein target victims were asked to pay … The five-time Grammy award winner Amy Winehouse was found dead in London on July 23rd. Symantec has already observed spammers who are trying to capitalize on related news headlines by sending out malicious threats less than a day after the news was released. The two samples given below are examples that we have observed. … The scam waves in Facebook continue, as expected. For example the recent “brother raped his sister” theme has been changed a bit and sent along for a new run on the social network. It’s the same content that has been used with similar themes over the last few weeks, only the scammers have just added … Complete malware analysis is often limited by real-world circumstances. Many of the trojans that we analyze will attempt to connect to a remote server for further instructions. At this point, we know that the software is not legitimate and should be blocked from installation on our customer’s computers. We don’t really need to examine it … Websense Security Labs® ThreatSeeker® network has noticed a typosquatting activity targeting google.com. Typosquatting is a popular Internet behavior that generates domain names based upon misspelling famous brand names. It is often abused by scammers to host malware and phishing content on these misspelled domains. Apparently, the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act(ACPA) was enacted in 1999 to fight … |
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