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Latest Computer Threat News
In the morning of May 12th our malware outbreak sensors registered another BlackHole outbreak hitting one of the Top 200 Alexa rank domains: Answers.com. Its RSS feed generated resource was infected with BlackHole exploit kit. The XML output file at the URL feeds.answers.com was prepended with an obfuscated JavaScript. The malicious code looks like this: [...]
Tue, 15 May 2012 08:25:40 +0000
AVG announced its first quarter results on May 10. AVGs solid execution across the board drove strong first quarter financial results and marked a healthy start to 2012. We are pleased with our financial performance and the fact that we have exceeded our Q1 expectations, stated J.R. Smith, chief executive officer of AVG. During the quarter, [...]
Fri, 11 May 2012 13:24:17 +0000
1. Spreading the Blackhole love on Twitter The AVG Web Threats Research team found this little landmine on Twitter in the last week. We suspect it was planted by a Blackhole operator. Clicking on the “free Antivirus” link takes you to the nearly inevitable: And, if an unsuspecting Twitter user is [...]
Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:00:56 +0000
This week sees the launch of the latest quarterly AVG Community Powered Threat Report. So what did the first quarter of 2012 Q1 2012 reveal in terms of threats? Blackhole Toolkits: Cyber criminals are adopting an increasingly entrepreneurial attitude through the marketing of ‘commercial’ crimeware kits. These kits are available to purchase online and effectively [...]
Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:03:30 +0000
What are cookies and what should users know about handling them? Almost every PC user will have at some point or another come across cookies when using a browser to surf the Internet. Do you want to accept cookies? Do you want to enable cookies, block cookies and of course delete cookies? These are [...]
Wed, 25 Apr 2012 08:00:53 +0000
