Badware Exterminator is a fake antispyware application. Victims of this malware are usually those people who are looking for some computer security assistance. BadwareExterminator usually spreads through quite many websites that were created for this purpose, for instance, Badwareexterminator.com, Badware-exterminator.net and some others.
If you visit one of such websites, you will be offered to manually [...]

CCenter (sometimes called Control Center) is a counterfeit antispyware program. It reaches the system with a help of Trojans that spread through fake on-line scanners or when it happens to download infected files from insecure web sources. CCenter malware is known to modify Windows registry, creates fake random files and affects all processes that run [...]

Another PDF sample that exploits an unpatched vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat has been spotted in the wild. The sample (detected by Trend Micro as TROJ_PIDIEF.WIA) uses the heap spray technique to execute shellcode in its stream. As a result, a malicious file detected as BKDR_POISON.UC is dropped into the system.
When executed, BKDR_POISON.UC opens an [...]

Post from: TrendLabs | Malware Blog - by Trend Micro

Unpatched Adobe Vulnerability Is Still Being Exploited in the Wild

APcDefender is a new malware that pretends to be an antispyware program. The interesting fact about this fake antispyware is that at the moment it only installs in French, German and Italian languages. Just as many other fake antispyware programs, it infects computer through the use of Trojans that simulate as the programs essential to [...]

Malware: TROJ_PIDIEF.VF