Oct 29, 2013 | General Security, Malware and Exploits
The detection and blocking of malicious code employed by modern threats, whether targeted attacks or mass-spreading campaigns, has been a game of cat-and-mouse with the perpetrators for some time now. And even though we are seeing shifts in the threat landscape and...
Oct 27, 2013 | Cyber-Crime, Malware and Exploits
There is a particularly nasty piece of ransomware going round – it’s name is cryptolocker. It is so named because it will encrypt and lock your files. When they malware (cryptolocker) has done this, the software will demand that you pay the authors money...
Oct 12, 2013 | Malware and Exploits
NEW DELHI: About one-third of Internet users in the country were attacked by web-borne malicious programmes or malwares during the July-September period this year, a report by security solutions provider Kaspersky has said. Kaspersky Lab products detected 21,946,308...
Sep 24, 2013 | Malware and Exploits
This week, the FBI sent out a warning that a commercial strain of malware known as “Beta Bot” can turn off your antivirus, stops access to the websites of antivirus vendors so that your antivirus program cannot call home for fresh definitions, and steals...
Sep 17, 2013 | Malware and Exploits
Issue: A threat or suspicious object (private message, chat or wall/timeline post, for example) is detected on Facebook by the ESET Social Media Scanner Watch the video tutorial here: ESET Social Media Scanner facebook App – removing a threat
Sep 6, 2013 | Malware and Exploits
According to Kaspersky Lab, spam is being found which pretends to come from CNN – and is claiming that the US has begun bombing Syria: Clicking the shortened link will lead to an exploit kit which targets older, vulnerable versions of Adobe Reader and Java. The...
