AutoCAD Adware Trojans Target Techies

July 1, 2009 – 8:52 am

By Andrew Brandt Every once in a while, you hear whispers or rumors about specially-crafted, targeted malware designed to steal a specific piece of data from a particular victim. The data thieves, in these limited cases, tend to be clever, thoughtful, and methodical in both the creation and deployment of their creations. Rarely do malware [...]

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Adware client tags you as its pitchman

May 21, 2009 – 3:11 pm

By Andrew Brandt Over the past week, someone has been spamming the file sharing site ThePirateBay.org with comments advertising a new “product” called BittorrentBooster. According to the site’s administrators, the spammer used a large number of fraudulently registered accounts to post the messages as feedback, attached to hundreds, possibly thousands, of downloadable .torrent files, which [...]

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Adware Purveyors Panning for Search Gold

March 27, 2009 – 2:30 pm

By Andrew Brandt We know most adware companies are shameless in their pursuit of revenue, but it’s been a while since we’ve seen anything as bizarre (or hilariously bold) as the sales pitch from a relative neophyte to the world of adware, which calls itself SnappyAds. On its homepage, SnappyAds posits the hypothetical glee of [...]

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New Malware Ruins Firefox

March 25, 2009 – 3:10 am

By Andrew Brandt Late last year, we read all the buzz about ChromeInject, a malicious DLL that was being billed as the first malware specifically targeting Firefox. It was interesting to see that someone built a phishing Trojan for a different browser platform, but ChromeInject was also clearly an early phase in Firefox malware development: [...]

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