Articles Archive for 23 February 2010
Posted in Information and Removal on 23 February 2010
Harriton High School in Lower Merion School District near Philadelphia is one of the first schools that provided their students with MacBook laptops not only to use them at school but also for their individual use at home. Sounds like a great idea to bring the studies closer to the advantages of new technologies. However, [...]
Posted in Information and Removal on 23 February 2010
Holidayhomesecurity.com is a malicious website that distributes Security Tool rogue anti-spyware. The website not only advertises Security Tool but also performs a system scan that supposedly finds threats on your system and the recommends removing them by purchasing Security Tool program.
Unfortunately, you may become a victim of this malicious application even if you don’t visit [...]
Posted in Information and Removal on 23 February 2010
Holidayhomesecurity.com is a malicious website that distributes Security Tool rogue anti-spyware. The website not only advertises Security Tool but also performs a system scan that supposedly finds threats on your system and the recommends removing them by purchasing Security Tool program.
Unfortunately, you may become a victim of this malicious application even if you don’t visit [...]
Posted in Information and Removal on 23 February 2010
Trend Micro’s Web Reputation Services (WRS) Operations Team recently received a phishing email claiming to be from Blogger (see Figure 1), a free blog publishing tool from Google.
The spammed message instructed users to update their Blogger accounts by clicking the embedded link, which leads them to a fake login page. At first glance, the site’s [...]
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Posted in Information and Removal on 23 February 2010
News of another plane crash shook Americans on Thursday morning. Reportedly, a begrudged pilot, furious with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), intentionally crashed a small plane on the building that housed the agency’s office in Austin, Texas. Although the said incident was tagged “an isolated event” and not an act of terrorism, cybercriminals launched their [...]
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Posted in Information and Removal on 23 February 2010
Trend Micro security experts have not seen pump-and-dump spam campaigns in a fairly long time. In fact, some of the most recent attacks of this kind were last seen last year:
Pump-and-Dump Spammers Take on Amazon
“Storm Pump and Dump”: The Musical
Taking Stock of Spam
In a pump-and-dump attack, spammers raise the stock prices of companies they own [...]
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