It has been a year since WORM_DOWNAD.AD (aka “Conficker”) began a trail of system infections around the world. Since then, Trend Micro has detected new variants, including WORM_DOWNAD.KK, which proved to be an upgraded version that enabled the worm to increase the number of domains it generated from 250 to 50,000. In recent months, [...]
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Trend Micro fraud analysts were recently alerted to the discovery of a new phishing campaign that specifically targets AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) users. The spammed message purports to be from AIM and urges recipients to download and execute the latest AIM version to reactivate their currently inactive accounts. This becomes a problem if the receivers [...] Our analysts from EMEA have found a blackhat SEO attack that uses strings with the phrase “free printable” to hijack search traffic by directing it into a rogue search engine. Our researchers have found that search engine queries using the string “free printable” yield results that include compromised websites. The said compromised websites are [...] |
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