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The cybercriminals wish us a Merry Christmas, And a Happy New Year
Today it is the last day of the year 2008 and all those cybercriminals who have a "great heart" want to wish us happy Christmas…
"Constructing" bad things…again
In previous posts, we have talked about tools to create malware, like Constructor/Turkojan, Constructor/Wormer and Constructor/YFakeCreator. And we have recently detected a new version of these malicious tools called Constructor/BitTera.C.…
Anatomy of a Rogue Security Campaign
Reference for diagram: Step 1: Blue Shows the process at which the user will be directed to the infected website. Step 2: Red Shows the…
ICANN Terminates Contract with EstDomains
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has terminated its contract with the widely criticized domain registrar, EstDomains. For those who don't know,…
New ways to distribute rogueware
Nowadays, the most prevalent infections belong to rogueware, which are those fake antivirus, antispyware or anti-anything that try to take the money from the users…
As stock market drops malware rises
As the U.S. stock market indexes dramatically declined in September, cybercriminals began organizing their efforts to sustain profitability. While the stock market shows a sharp…
Microsoft Updates for November
This month two new security bulletins have been published ( MS08-068 and MS08-069 ) as part of the usual launch of Microsoft Updates. According to Microsoft's…