In an article by Dancho Danchev, he illustrated Trend Micro’s prediction that cloud hosting services such as Amazon EC2M can be easily used for fail-over command and control (C&C) botnet services.
Just recently, Trend Micro had an issue with some IP ranges from the Amazon EC2 data centers. Based on the procedures of our email reputation [...]
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Cybercriminals Go to the Cloud?
Google on Monday unveiled its latest Google Doodle, a festive tropical Christmas postcard that overlays the company’s logo on its main search page. The company will be rolling out a series of additional Christmas Doodles between now and the holiday, and is archiving them at this web page.
Tricking users into downloading rogue AV is an age-old cybercriminal tactic that still works. Hence the continuous rise in the number of rogue AV pushed to unwitting scam victims up to this day. In fact, the FBI just recently warned the public about the threat that rogue AV software poses, saying this has resulted in [...]
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Rogue AV Scams Result in US$150M in Losses
We have recently received queries from customers about the official exclusion list recommendations from Microsoft. It seems that they have published a Knowledge Base entry that lists down recommendations to improve performance in Windows when running antivirus scanners.
This list recommends customers to exclude certain extensions and folders from antivirus scanning. Now, although it actually makes [...]
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Microsoft Virus Scanning Recommendations Bring Risks
Old trends never die, it just resurface from time to time. Case at point, spammed messages that have attached MP3 files, which was last seen two years ago, made its presence felt once again today.
Trend Micro researchers were alerted to the discovery of spammed messages that bore no subject and body content. The email [...]
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MP3 Spam Is Back!
