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24th November Could Be Malware's Black Monday

Desire Athow — Tue, 18 Nov 2008

The spread of malware content and viruses are anticipated to reach a peak this year on November 24, with hackers attempting to take control of computers, a study from PC Tools revealed

Blizzard of US Presidential malware

Alex Eckelberry — Wed, 05 Nov 2008

Following on F-Secure’s blog entry today, we’re certainly seeing a fair number of these. Subject lines include

New rogue: Win Defender 2009, Seen in the wild: Clever Bebo phish

Alex Eckelberry — Sun, 02 Nov 2008

More about another nasty Total Defender 2009 Clone as well as a Bebo Phishing website

Security Tidbits : No, we're not at worm stage... (yet) and Just some comments on MS08-067

Alex Eckelberry — Thu, 30 Oct 2008

Looking at the particular trojan that blog mentioned, it seems to me to be a trojan related to the MS08–067 attacks that I took a quick look at this morning

Security Tidbits : AntiSpyware XP 2009, Pro Antispyware 2009

Alex Eckelberry — Wed, 29 Oct 2008

AntiSpyware XP 2009 is a clone of XP AntiSpyware 2009 rogue security application. This rogue belongs to WinReanimator family

WinDefender 2008 with a sidebar

Alex Eckelberry — Sun, 26 Oct 2008

Nifty, the Windefender 2008 has a pretty little sidebar to add to the illusion that it’s a normal product (Windefender isn’t itself a new rogue security program, we just thought the sidebar was something interesting).

Microsoft Pushes Emergency Security Patch To Solve Remote Execution Vulnerability

Desire Athow — Fri, 24 Oct 2008

Microsoft has released an “out of band” security patch, aimed at fixing a critical vulnerability in almost all versions of Windows and Windows Server

Security Tidbits : New rogues Brought to you by Innovagest 2000, PC Defender 2008

Alex Eckelberry — Thu, 23 Oct 2008

Brand new, even more nastier, rogues

DownloadMalware.com : A sick joke

Alex Eckelberry — Sun, 19 Oct 2008

Sometimes people do silly things that can have very devastating consequences.

Online Criminals Come Up with Malware Infested Fake Youtube Page Generator

Desire Athow — Fri, 12 Sep 2008

PandaLabs, Panda Security's laboratory for detecting and analyzing malware, has detected YTFakeCreator, a program used by cyber-crooks to create fake YouTube pages to infect users with malware