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Is Flamer big news ? Probably not.

The Flamer worm caused the main buzz for AV and security companies in the late May 2012. It is kind of understandable – it is espionage tool and we do not see many targeted attacks that might be caused by governments. Everyone tried to cash in: some claimed that it Read more…

By Giedrius Majauskas, 13 years ago
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8 Steps to Make WordPress Safer

WordPress is one of the most popular blogging platforms around. However, if you self-host your blog (and not host on wordpress.com), you are responsible to make it more secure. WordPress blogs are constant target of automated and manual hacker attacks. When your site gets infected, it redirects your visitors to Read more…

By Giedrius Majauskas, 13 yearsMay 5, 2012 ago
Security

Too weird message subject to be true? It isn’t

Although websites are usual way to distribute malware, email is far from forgotten by malware makers. Spam volume goes down, but targeted spam messages work wonders. One of the popular tactics is sending out mails with zipped files or links to them claiming this is document you asked for, or Read more…

By Giedrius Majauskas, 13 years ago
Security

Don’t fall for “young girls are waiting” scam on Twitter

There is a spam campaign going on Twitter that promotes Blackhole exploit kit or some fake antiviruses. The messages look like “young girls are waiting” or similar. Sure, these messages look spammy like hell, but some people click on them and land in fake online scanner pages. Such pages resemble Read more…

By Giedrius Majauskas, 13 yearsApril 18, 2012 ago
Security

Online reputation management strategy used by malware makers

Online reputation is important. Everyone checks product information and reviews online. In many cases, more than a single source is checked. Thus it is critical to have decent reputation which is quite hard for people with malicious intents. However, it is still possible and malware makers use more than a Read more…

By Giedrius Majauskas, 13 yearsApril 6, 2012 ago
Security

Big malware players return during the autumn

Rogue AV market was mostly dead through August and September. Although this might be caused by Chronopay raid, the timing of the raids did not match with the decline. Additionally, we have seen significant shift to different kind of malware: google redirects, new kinds of rootkits, Bitcoin mining software and Read more…

By Giedrius Majauskas, 14 yearsOctober 3, 2011 ago
Security

Is malware payment gateway shutdown the end of Fake AVs?

Several botnets were shut down and the CEO of rogue parmacy and fake antivirus credit card processor was  arrested recently. This resulted in the significant drop of malicious software activity in August. Many took time to celebrate and rightfully so. However, I do not think this is the end of Fake Read more…

By Giedrius Majauskas, 14 yearsAugust 27, 2011 ago
Security

Malware tactics : impersonating legitimate programs

A goal of typical fake antivirus program is convincing you into giving away your credit card details. This can be done in several ways: 1. Simulating PC problems: showing porn, slowing it down, blocking other programs. This forces users into searching for solution to make PC usable. Quite often fake Read more…

By Giedrius Majauskas, 14 yearsFebruary 4, 2011 ago
Security

Palladium Pro – ThinkPoints successor in the wild

Last autumn was lead by ThinkPoint (or fake Microsoft essentials alerts) family of malware. Together with Security Tool Virus it was one of the biggest and the most promoted parasites. Most of other parasite families were divided in smallish, slower attacks that haven’t hit that huge amount of PCs. However, Read more…

By Giedrius Majauskas, 14 years ago
Security

Ultra Defragger – a fake disk defragmenter

A new fake system maintenance utility is infecting more and more PCs this weekend: Ultra Defragger. This malware is clone of HDD Defragmenter/System Defragmenter/etc and has little differences except in the name. It shows same outrageous claims about hardware malfunctions and offers software-based “cure” for 80 USD. Everything it shows Read more…

By Giedrius Majauskas, 15 yearsNovember 14, 2010 ago

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