Articles Archive for 27 July 2009
Posted in Information and Removal on 27 July 2009
One recent report by Rik Ferguson revealed that malicious Twitter posts are getting dangerously more customized, increasing the possibility of users getting hooked into malicious schemes.
A Twitter spambot is said to have been used in launching this recent attack. The spambot creates Twitter accounts and fashion them to appear as legitimate accounts by posting seemingly [...]
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Posted in Information and Removal on 27 July 2009
“Warning! Running trial version!” is a misleading system warning from the rogue security application called Privacy Center. This fake notification comes from the Task bar and looks legitimately, but in reality it’s just another misleading methods used by the rogue program. “Warning! Running trial version!” warning reads:
Warning! Running trial version!
The security of your computer has [...]
Posted in Information and Removal on 27 July 2009
This weekend, we at TrendLabs came across a FAKEAV variant similar to the one peddled in the solar eclipse 2009 in America attack in this recent blog post. This one, however, introduces another new scare tactic (so far the latest new ploy we’ve seen is the ransomware/FAKEAV that encrypts files in the infected computer and [...]
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