Adobe piggybacks on Microsoft Patch Tuesday

Adobe’s first ever quarterly patch for the Reader and Acrobat product lines is set for June 9, the same day Microsoft is scheduled to deliver its batch of security updates. As previously announced, Adobe plans to deliver security updates for Adobe Reader and Acrobat versions 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x for Windows and Macintosh on [...]

Autorun Worm Invades ZIP

Stealth technique used by malware is considered a core characteristic which has been developed, improved, redesigned, and reused. Michael Tants, Threat Researcher at Regional TrendLabs in Europe, has notified us of a worm that has a unique way of hiding: on infection, WORM_AUTORUN.JFZ writes a copy of itself in every ZIP-compressed file it finds [...]

Air France Flight 447 Search Results Lead to Rogue Antivirus

Issues surrounding the crash of Air France Flight 447 have not been fully resolved up to now but, it didn’t need be for cybercriminals; they’re already taking advantage of this tragedy too. Through SEO poisoning, searches for reports related to the plane crash yield links that when opened trigger multiple redirections to various sites, [...]

Search Results for Air France Flight 447 Lead to Rogue Antivirus

Issues surrounding the crash of Air France Flight 447 have not been fully resolved up to now but, it didn’t need be for cybercriminals; they’re already taking advantage of this tragedy too. Through SEO poisoning, searches for reports related to the plane crash yield links that when opened trigger multiple redirections to various sites, which [...]