Permissions and malware
Published by Javier Guerrero, May 26th 2010 There’s a general feeling that Windows is not a secure operating system, as opposed to others such as…
Fake Windows Security Center alert
We’ve started receiving email messages passing itself off as a warning message from the Windows Security Center. The subject of the message is Windows Security…
Twitter used to distribute malware
A new malware has started to spread via the social network Twitter. The message that is being used is: haha this is the funniest video…
Western Union entwined with cybercrime?
A few weeks ago I came across several email messages in Spanish purporting to have been sent by Western Union: As you can see, this…
Why do we act so differently in our virtual worlds?
Social media is being embraced by individuals and companies in all industries and internally across all company silos. Whether companies are adapting to or embracing…
Final episode of ‘Lost’ used by hackers to spread the MySecurityEngine fake antivirus
–Â Other series and films also used as bait to distribute malware: PandaLabs has detected similar attacks using keywords including Glee, Family Guy and Iron Man…
Lost, Ronnie James Dio, and so on and so forth, to distribute rogueware
It seems that false antivirus have found in the BlackHat SEO attacks a usual means to be distributed. That’s the case of the rogueware MySecurityEngine…