Earlier this week, the botnet masters behind the most efficient social engineering driven botnet, Koobface, launched a new campaign currently spreading across Facebook with a new template spoofing Adobe’s Flash updater embedded within a fake Youtube page. The malware campaign is relying on compromised legitimate web sites, now representing 77% of malicious sites in [...]
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The Ad-Aware series of products have long been known primarily for Ad-Aware Free, the free piece of anti-spyware software. But it also has the for-pay Ad-Aware Plus ($27 for a one-year, single-user license) as well, which includes anti-virus capabilities. Read entire article The Ad-Aware series of products have long been known primarily for Ad-Aware Free, a famous and free piece of anti-spyware software. But Lavasoft’s products include for-pay Ad-Aware Plus and Pro versions as well. Designed primarily for businesses, Ad-Aware Pro (various pricing; $40 for a one-year, single-user license) includes anti-virus, network protection, and a variety [...] Botnets are elaborate command-and-control systems used by criminals for sending spam, stealing personal information or launching denial-of-service attacks through hijacked computers. But their underlying malware code structures share common ways to evade detection, and even mimic some commercial code practices, such as digital methods to prevent copying and reverse engineering, says one researcher. Read [...] Trend Micro threat analysts were recently alerted to a phishing attempt targeting random employees of several companies. The email posed as a notification from the company’s “system administrator,” reminding the employee to update his/her system’s software due to a recent server software upgrade. The spammed email, like other phishing emails, contained a URL that led [...] |
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