Zeus 2.0

Flickr Credit: Sebastia Giralt The title of this post might confuse some people. The 2.0 symbol may trigger thoughts about yet another social networking story we have all read in the last three years and probably do not want to... [...more]

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The Show Must Go On…

Flickr Credit: Raqib Our security research team is constantly monitoring what is happening on the Web that we at AVG should be aware of. Looking for malicious URLs, exploits, new obfuscation techniques are just a few of the tasks we... [...more]

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Japanese Ransom Trojan Horse

This BBC blog mentioned recently a new threat attacking Japanese users aka "Kenzero" trojan and we would like to clarify some information about it. AVG detects all known variants as Trojan horse Generic17.ATLK and Trojan horse PSW.Generic7.AUUX. This malware belongs... [...more]

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Copyright Violation Scam

After years of rogue antivirus and antispyware products, scaring users by tens or hundreds non-existing infections it seems that there is new way how to rip off computers user - we have noticed malware pretending to be “Antipiracy client scanner... [...more]

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NSS Labs’ Questionable Report

It’s interesting that this is the first time in AVG’s history that anyone has come out and said that our product flat out doesn’t catch what it’s supposed to catch. That doesn’t fit with our reputation and it doesn’t fit our own experience with our 110 million customers. It just doesn’t smell right. AVG eagerly awaits a further response from NSS so they can see for themselves that AVG does indeed protect its customers from the Aurora attack. [...more]

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Fake Antivirus case analysis

One of previous DHL scam campaign propagated downloader in ziped attachement named DHL_label_NR1156.exe. Collected Name: DHL_label_NR1156.exe SIZE: 41984 bytes MD5: f71d48a86776f8c0da4d7a46257ff97c After execution malware copies itself as incognito.exe into %system% folder. Downloader then gets two binaries named exe0.exe and dll.dll... [...more]

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Energizer distributes Trojan!

How surprised we were during analysis of Energizer USB Duo charger monitoring software (no longer available on company's website) we received few days ago. Among regular files installed on computer, which are intended to monitor conditions of batteries, is installed... [...more]

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Beware of Botnets!

Flickr Credit: Hector Aiza According to security firm Netwitness 75 thousand computers globally have been hacked with the ZeuS Trojan horse. The Kneber botnet appears to have been used for this particular attack. Many large organizations, including US government agencies... [...more]

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Microsoft SCAM Campaign

You probably know about Facebook scam campaign launched recently. Well spammers changed their campaign today. It`s no longer Facebook team but Microsoft team who prompts you to run attached attachement. And its nothing new in fact. As before attached ZIP... [...more]

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Trojan horse PSW.Banker5.AKJK Analysis

General Information: Collected Name: fotos.exe SIZE: 1477530 bytes MD5: 0475fa8fac3f7bbac0d38a1b89d42e51 Packer: Thinstall Behavior: This malware monitors system windows and searchs for some bank string patterns in their titles. If a match occurs, it tries to overlap the bank site login... [...more]

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