Articles Archive for 22 January 2010
Posted in Information and Removal on 22 January 2010
The recent attacks on Google and other large organizations (currently being referred to by others as Aurora, Google Attacks, Hydraq) were a set of carefully orchestrated, sophisticated and highly complex attacks. They comprised malicious threats to all three communication vectors – email, web and files, plus most notably, a zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer. In [...]
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Trend Micro To Help Proactively Protect Against Zero-Day Attacks like the recent IE Explorer Exploit
Posted in Information and Removal on 22 January 2010
After the earthquake that hit Haiti last week, January 12, the Internet was flooded with requests for financial donations, although it may be noted that not all of which were true to their stated intentions.
Martin Roesler, Trend Micro Director of Threat Research, warns users of the internet to be very careful when following links regarding [...]
Post from: TrendLabs | Malware Blog - by Trend Micro
Posted in Information and Removal on 22 January 2010
Desktop Security 2010 is one of those “professional” anti-spywares aiming to fool PC users into purchasing them. Other examples that can be marked out are Security Tool and Antivirus Live applications. DesktopSecurity2010 usually surprises PC users by its appearance because it comes unnoticeably with a help of Trojans. When inside, it starts struggling for convincing [...]
Posted in Information and Removal on 22 January 2010
APcSecure is just one more fake anti-spyware application from the “famous” WiniSoft family. Being a typical member of this group, APcSecure gets into the targeted system through Trojans infections that pretend to be updates necessary to view certain videos online. The sad news is that instead of these updates people download and install Trojan which [...]
Posted in CA Security Advisor on 22 January 2010
This trojan is a malicious JavaScript(JS) file that uses a known vulnerability to download and execute other malicious files on the victim’s computer.
When a user accesses a malicious website, this malware usually arrives on the user’s system as a malicious JAVA Script(JS) file. The attack is through a specially crafted HTML DOM operation, which causes memory corruption and leads to…
