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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 [...] Do you know how to guard against scareware? How about Trojan horse text messages? Or social network data harvesting? Malicious hackers are a resourceful bunch, and their methods continually evolve to target the ways we use our computers now. New attack techniques allow bad guys to stay one step ahead of security software and [...] The recent attacks on Google and other large organizations (currently being referred to by others as “Aurora,” “Google attacks,” or “HYDRAQ”) refer to a set of carefully orchestrated, sophisticated, and highly complex attacks. They comprised malicious threats to all three communication vectors—email, Web, and files, plus, most notably, a zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer (IE). [...] After the earthquake that hit Haiti last January 12, the Internet was flooded with requests for financial donations from all sorts of companies and organizations. It should be noted that not all of these were true to their stated intentions. Martin Roesler, Trend Micro Director of Threat Research, warns Internet users to be very careful [...] |
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