Articles Archive for 26 January 2010
Posted in Information and Removal on 26 January 2010
It has been a year since WORM_DOWNAD.AD (aka “Conficker”) began a trail of system infections around the world. Since then, Trend Micro has detected new variants, including WORM_DOWNAD.KK, which proved to be an upgraded version that enabled the worm to increase the number of domains it generated from 250 to 50,000.
In recent months, things have [...]
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Posted in Information and Removal on 26 January 2010
Trend Micro fraud analysts were recently alerted to the discovery of a new phishing campaign that specifically targets AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) users.
The spammed message purports to be from AIM and urges recipients to download and execute the latest AIM version to reactivate their currently inactive accounts.
This becomes a problem if the receivers actually have AIM [...]
Post from: TrendLabs | Malware Blog - by Trend Micro
Posted in Information and Removal on 26 January 2010
Laptopantivirus.net is one of the latest homepage hijackers that are closely related to Antivirus Live badware. Amazing number of such hijackers is known to be supporting this rogue anti-spyware which poses nothing else but a potential risks for every infected machine. Antivirus Live is known to make every computer extremely slow, let more malware inside [...]
Posted in Information and Removal on 26 January 2010
Our analysts from EMEA have found a blackhat SEO attack that uses strings with the phrase “free printable” to hijack search traffic by directing it into a rogue search engine.
Our researchers have found that search engine queries using the string “free printable” yield results that include compromised websites. The said compromised websites are rigged [...]
Post from: TrendLabs | Malware Blog - by Trend Micro
