Malware
Gaddafi’s death is explored by scammers
By Gina on October 24, 2011 | Malware
After Libyan dictator’s Moammar Gaddafi death fake video and rogue photos are circulating across the web that explores the latest news of the world.Hackers have already spread an attack posing as pictures of Gaddafi's death, gaining to fool users that all information and photos came from the AFP news agency. Moreover, it is shown that this new message is being forwarded by a fellow internet user. Read more.
A new way for spreading malware - online game item trade
By Bryan on October 11, 2011 | Malware
A new way of spreading malware has hit the gaming world. It seems that in-game item trading may cause the players a lot of problems.With the introduction of Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPG) like World of Warcraft (2004) a new gaming era has begun. This is the era of games which have no ending. And this caused a new phenomenon virtual economy. Read more.
The Kelihos botnet is down but Macs are still in danger
By Gina on September 29, 2011 | Malware
This week was big enough for Microsoft and Kaspersky because of the shutdown of the Kelihos botnet. It was widely discussed because Microsoft was able to initiate an individual defendant in their US court case this time.Dominique Alexander Piatti, the owner of the cz.cc domain was named and Microsoft got permission to shutdown the entire cz.cc domain. Read more.
Google redirect hijacker
By Gina on September 22, 2011 | Malware
Google redirect hijacker is malicious software. If infected hijacker may redirect affected Internet users’ search results on Google, Yahoo! and Bing to completely nonsense and gibberish sites that show mass of advertisements. Moreover, many its victims can't even get Google to load. Google redirect hijacker is used by cyber criminals to produce botnets. Read more.
Rogue software “Chit Chat” invades computer users’ browsers
By Gina on September 6, 2011 | Malware
New fake software which appeared recently is quite an interesting one. “Chit Chat” allows computer users to chat with their Facebook friends directly from desktop. This is instant messaging software which approves its victims use this fictitious software by not opening Facebook. It comes to the user’s computer through the use of Relevant knowledge which is also classified as spyware or adware by some of the anti-virus software vendors. Read more.
