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Malware Sales Through Social Networks

Antivirus-Protection — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 07:21:26 +0000

Social media has affected business organizations in many different ways through the years and these effects caused the development of a rather complicated relationship between the two. Social media has proven to be an effective marketing tool for businesses. Data collected last year from Fortune’s Global 100 revealed that more than 50 percent of the [...]

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Malware Sales Through Social Networks

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Spammers Target Facebook and Twitter at Once

Antivirus-Protection — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 10:57:41 +0000

Due to their ever-growing popularity, social networks have been a continuous target of cybercriminals to proliferate their malicious schemes. TrendLabsSM received samples of another Facebook spam, this time also taking advantage of the popular micro-blogging site, Twitter. The mail, which poses as a Facebook notification message, uses adult-themed strings to lure users into opening the [...]

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Spammers Target Facebook and Twitter at Once

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Months-Old Skype Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild

Antivirus-Protection — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 04:21:32 +0000

Cybercriminals have once again used a not-so-new but still a seemingly promising medium for their malware campaigns. Earlier today, ZDNet reported a “new” exploit that targets Skype users. This exploit takes advantage of a vulnerability in a Skype component—EasyBits Extras Manager. While the vulnerability was found and fixed as early as October 2009, many users [...]

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Months-Old Skype Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild

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Microsoft Help Center Zero-Day Exploits Loose

Antivirus-Protection — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 05:43:15 +0000

Heads-up for users still running Windows XP: The unpatched Help Center flaw revealed last week is now out in the wild and being used to launch malware attacks against target users. This new zero-day exploit takes advantage of the vulnerability that exists in the Microsoft Windows Help Center, a default Microsoft application that allows users [...]

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Microsoft Help Center Zero-Day Exploits Loose

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Passwords Matter—The Hidden Risks “Minor” Info Stealers Pose

Antivirus-Protection — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 11:37:42 +0000

Last week, we had two major mass compromises. The first one hit more than 100,000 websites, including major news sites like the Wall Street Journal and the Jerusalem Post. The second campaign was much smaller, hitting only around 1,000 pages, and also lacked similarly high-profile victims although the casino firm Ameristar was on the victim [...]

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Passwords Matter—The Hidden Risks “Minor” Info Stealers Pose

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