Tag Archives: Trojans
Easter E-Cards Serving Up Trojans
The holidays are a time when cyber crooks hunt for victims by distributing Trojans and or Malware in hopes that users will click on links inside an email to read their greeting card. The links in these emails will take users to malicious web sites that install Trojans and or Malware on the user’s computer. [...]
Full StoryStumbleUpon Shares Serving Up Trojans
Over the weekend, I noticed that some pages being shared on the social network StumbleUpon have malicious code. The sites distribute a Trojan which installs a rogue anti-virus program without the user’s knowledge or consent. Once installed, the user will be alerted with false threats on the computer. In order to remove these false threats, [...]
Full StoryRogueware and Fake Antivirus will Dominate in 2011
2010 is now on the history channel, but for some, it led to cash windfalls. Hackers and cybercriminals will continue their onslaught of attacks on social networks, rogue software peddling and fraudulent web sites. The most popular infection method of 2010 was Trojans, making up 55.91% of all infections according to Panda Labs. Rogueware and [...]
Full StoryFarmVille Cheats come with Viruses
FarmVille is a very popular and addicting game on Facebook. There are many players who are looking to get an edge by searching for FarmVille Cheats on Google and other search engines. The problem with searching for Farmville cheats is what you may get in return. There are sites that are capitalizing on the popular [...]
Full StoryInstant Messaging Hazard
People that use IM’s…”instant messaging” programs like Windows Live Messenger (WLM), Yahoo, ICQ, AIM, etc. frequently get invitations from what appears to be friendly strangers, when in fact it’s an automated harvester (“bot”) seeking to infect your machine. I’ll use WLM for this example because I use it myself for communicating with people in real [...]
Full StoryMac Users Have No Fear
Mac users can breathe easy, but for how long? The latest Conficker worm has no affect on the Mac OS. Windows users aren’t that fortunate as the popular Conficker has infected more than 10 million systems World wide. In a recent attack, University of Utah officials say a computer virus has infected more than 700 [...]
Full StoryNew Trojan Alert and Removal Instructions
Trojan.Chromeinject.A is a Trojan horse that steals information from the compromised computer. When executed, the Trojan searches the compromised computer for the location of the Mozilla Firefox browser and copies itself as the following files: %SystemDrive%\[PATH TO FIREFOX]\plugins\npbasic.dll %SystemDrive%\[PATH TO FIREFOX]\plugins\npbasic.dll1 %Temp%\[RANDOM FILE NAME].tmp It then modifies the following files in order to steal information [...]
Full StoryMalware Getting More Sophisticated
We recently wrote a blog about Malware is at an all time high, totaling more blocked in July than in all of 2007 according to SaaS vendor ScanSafe. Every time you turn around, there is another phishing scam, email disguised as a FedEx notification, or outlandish news headline. Online attacks will be dominated by smarter [...]
Full StoryMalware on the rise!
Phishing is a well known way to entice you to visit a Web site that can exploit your browser and plant malware on your machine. Web content filtering isn’t enough to combat malware deployed over the Web because content filters usually analyze entire sites and not specific pages. So if malware is hosted on a [...]
Full StoryRussian Hacker Gang at it Again!
What do they use? The Coreflood Trojan horse to infect massive numbers of PCs that gathers confidential information, including bank account numbers and passwords. The Russian hacker group is at it again using a Microsoft administration tool to steal passwords. This is not new as they have been doing this for years. A sampling of [...]
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