Anti-Virus Archive

It’s official: Adobe Reader is world’s most-exploited app


The new Microsoft
Adobe’s ubiquitous Reader application has replaced Microsoft Word as the program that’s most often targeted in malware campaigns, according to figures compiled by F-Secure.…

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Vodafone ships Mariposa-infected HTC Magic


Android phone comes riddled with bots
Updated  Vodafone has been blamed for shipping Mariposa botnet malware and other nasties on a HTC Magic Android smartphones it supplied.…

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Energizer Duo software suffers backdoor Trojan bother


Shh, I’m hunting wabbits
A Trojan backdoor found its way into Energizer Duo USB battery charger software downloads.…

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Scareware sellers fool Google with file switch


Replacing pdfs with dodgy Flash files
Cybercrooks have developed a new technique for manipulating search engine results in order to promote the crud they sell, such as scareware packages.…

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Patch Tuesday will leave F1 hole unpatched


Light spring sprinkle follows deluge
Microsoft is planning just two bulletins next week, covering vulnerabilities rated only as “important”, as part of this month’s Patch Tuesday.…

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How FBI, police busted massive botnet


12m zombie machines run by 3 admins
Analysis  More details have emerged about a cybercrime investigation that led to the takedown of a botnet containing 12m zombie PCs and the arrest of three alleged kingpins who built and ran it.…

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MS confirms ‘F1 to pwn’ IE bug


Looking for help can be dangerous
Microsoft has confirmed that an unpatched Internet Explorer vulnerability makes it potentially dangerous to press F1 if you are running earlier versions of Windows.…

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Qualys crawls into the malware scanning biz


Friendly robots provide drive-by download alerts
Qualys is inviting sys admins to sign up to a new free service, QualysGuard Malware Detection, which provides alerts about drive-by-download attacks and malicious scripts on monitored websites.…

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WoW authenticators bypassed by middlemen hackers


Your shiny weapons are no good here
Crooks have developed a man-in-the-middle-attack designed to circumvent authentication kit used by dedicated World of Warcraft gamers.…

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Hackers go on Tory-bothering spree


Dave’s websites made to spew ‘Vote Labour’ spam
Conservative party websites have been attacked by mischievous hackers over the weekend, who defaced some of the sites and sent spam messages from others urging people to “vote Labour”.…

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