Researchers intercept a client-side exploits serving malware campaign

January 25, 2012 – 12:14 pm

By Dancho Danchev Security researchers from Webroot have intercepted a currently active, client-side exploits-serving malicious campaign that has already managed to infect 18,544 computers across the globe, through the BlackHole web malware exploitation kit. More details:

By ddanchev | Posted in Backdoors, Downloaders, Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Keyloggers, malware, Passwords, rootkit, Threat Research, Trojans | Tags: , , , , , , , | Comments (2)

Adobe issues a patch for critical security holes in Reader and Acrobat

January 11, 2012 – 7:48 am

by Dancho Danchev As part of its quarterly patch update, today Adobe issued a critical security update plugging multiple security holes in its Acrobat Reader, and Adobe Acrobat software applications. More details:

By ddanchev | Posted in Exploits, malware | Tags: , , , , | Comments (2)

Everyone has a role in protecting a corporate infrastructure (Part 1)

November 30, 2011 – 11:21 am

By Jacques Erasmus This time of year, those of us in information security become wary of crafty criminals leveraging the winter holidays to prey on our employees’ lack of awareness online in a number of ways. All it takes is for one Trojan to infect a single PC in a company to put an entire [...]

By jerasmus11 | Posted in Enterprises, phishing, Phishing Trojans, social engineering, spam, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a Comment

Modified Websites Pushing Trojans On the Rise

April 21, 2010 – 10:46 am

By Andrew Brandt For the past couple of weeks, owners of Web sites have been hit with a wave of attacks that surreptitiously infect unsuspecting visitors with a wide variety of malware types. The first wave inflicted rogue antivirus on unlucky victims, but late last week victims who visited infectious sites were redirected into a [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in adware, Blackhat SEO, Destructive behavior, Rogue Security Products, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (1)
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