“OMG! Vuvuzela banned!” Tweets Infect Followers

By Andrew Brandt Malware authors must have a soft spot in their hearts for the long-maligned South African vuvuzela, because once again, theĀ  most annoying noisemaker in World Cup history is driving people to Web sites which push infections down to their computers. This time, people are retweeting the malicious links attached to a message [...]

Botnet Trojan Adds “Gootkit” Code to Web Pages

By Andrew Brandt An insidious new Trojan that finds its way onto Windows PCs in the course of a drive-by infection employs a novel method to propagate: It connects to Web servers using stolen FTP credentials, and if successful, modifies any HTML and PHP files with extra code. The code opens an iFrame pointing to [...]

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