One recent report by Rik Ferguson revealed that malicious Twitter posts are getting dangerously more customized, increasing the possibility of users getting hooked into malicious schemes. A Twitter spambot is said to have been used in launching this recent attack. The spambot creates Twitter accounts and fashion them to appear as legitimate accounts by [...]
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Less than a month after a first pass at patching a troublesome flaw affecting its dominant Internet Explorer browser, Microsoft has announced plans to release two emergency updates with a comprehensive fix for the problem. The unusual move comes on the heels of a bombshell blog post by reverse engineering specialist Halvar Flake that [...] Guest Editorial by George Stathakopoulos It seems like just yesterday when I was at Black Hat. Now as I get ready to fly to Las Vegas again, I look forward to seeing a lot of security researchers, hearing their latest exploits and how they fared over the last 352 days. At the same time, [...] This weekend, we at TrendLabs came across a FAKEAV variant similar to the one peddled in the solar eclipse 2009 in America attack in this recent blog post. This one, however, introduces another new scare tactic (so far the latest new ploy we’ve seen is the ransomware/FAKEAV that encrypts files in the infected computer and [...] |
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