August 19th, 2008 by Shanmuga
"The attack puts a hard-to-delete weblink into the clipboard that, if followed, leads people to a website selling fake security software. The code that inserts the link has been found in flash-based adverts seen on many legitimate websites.
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August 19th, 2008 by Shanmuga
"Online advertising has become a huge profit center for website owners. Web adverts fuel many free websites, particularly social networks, blogs, forums and news sites. Since Web adverts have a virtually unlimited capacity to reach millions of users, attackers look to them as a doorway to install malicious code.
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August 12th, 2008 by Shanmuga
"Internet Antivirus is a new rogue anti-virus program that uses false information and aggressive tactics in order to scare people into purchasing it. Most people see ads for Internet Antivirus as they browse the web…If you decide to download and install the program, Internet Antivirus will be set to automatically run when your computer starts. Once started, it will scan your computer and display a variety of legitimate programs and folders and state that they are infection. These infections, though, can’t be removed unless you first register the program. This act of displaying legitimate entries as malware is being done to scare you into purchasing the program. In fact, if you deleted all of the files and folders that it stated were infections, your computer would not run properly.
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August 12th, 2008 by Shanmuga
"Hackers, impersonating members’ friends, attacked Facebook by convincing users on Facebook’s Wall to view a video link that they said was hosted by Google. The Wall is a place were members post messages for friends.
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March 19th, 2008 by Shanmuga
"One of the factors that make an ongoing malware attack so difficult to stop is the speed with which the assault can evolve. Over the past 12 days, an IFrame injection attack that originally focused on ZDNet Asia has been spreading across the ‘Net, changing targets and payloads on an almost daily basis. An iFrame (short for inline frame) is an element of HTML that’s used to embed HTML from another source into a webpage. The timeline of the attack is provided below, thanks in no small part to security consultant Dancho Danchev, who has kept a play-by-play account of the IFrame attack on his blog.
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March 14th, 2008 by Shanmuga
"Antivirus vendor Trend Micro Inc. confirmed Thursday that "some portions" of its site had been hacked earlier this week, but hedged when asked if those pages had been serving up attack code to unsuspecting visitors.
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March 14th, 2008 by Shanmuga
"According to an analysis by Russian anti-virus maker Kaspersky Lab, MonaRonaDona is noisy because its author is hoping the victim will conduct a Google search for instructions on how to remove it. The second result in a Google search for "monaronadona" is a Digg.com article linking to an anonymous blog entry with instructions on downloading and using a product called "Unigray Antivirus." One blog claims Unigray "is considered the best for removing the monaronadona virus compared to the other spyware / antivirus programs." There are a few other prominent results that sing the praises of Unigray Antivirus, including a YouTube.com video.
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February 27th, 2008 by Shanmuga
"The WinCE/InfoJack Trojan hijacks the infected device’s serial number, operating system and other information and uploads it to an attacker-controlled Web site.
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February 23rd, 2008 by Shanmuga
"The Google-backed StopBadware.org group has explained the thinking behind its decision to slap the "badware" label on two versions of RealNetworks’ RealPlayer software, insisting there are serious problems with the installation process and behavior of the products.
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February 23rd, 2008 by Shanmuga
"The Russian Business Network, a notorious hacker and malware hosting network, runs a protection racket that extorts as much as $2,000 a month in fees for "protective Web services" from borderline sites, a researcher alleged today.
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