Fake AICPA Mail Serves Blackholes and Rootkits
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February 20, 2012
Be wary of emails claiming to be from AICPA – as per their alert here, these are not real and any mention of “unlawful tax return fraud” is just a bait to convince the end-user to open up a malicious …
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Snake on a Plane
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February 16, 2012
Martin and his team are a long time reseller for GFI Software, representing us across the Czech Republic and Slovakia. With his pilot license in hand, he often takes to the skies in some of the planes at the local …
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VIPREcast – Cleaning Up After Botnets
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February 15, 2012
As part of our regular VIPREcast webinar series, this month I’ll be talking about Botnets, giving some examples of Botnet activity and what to look out for when dealing with an infected machine. The talks are generally around 30 minutes …
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Here’s a Privacy Tool That Prevents You From Being Tracked
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February 14, 2012
—and they aptly named it Do Not Track Plus (DNT+). In this day and age when almost every site on the Internet is interested in “getting to know more about you”, I reckon our privacy-conscious readers might take delight on …
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Happy Valentine’s Derp
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February 13, 2012
With Valentine’s Day on the horizon, what better way to say “I love you” than, uh, losing your login details and spamming $500 Victoria’s Secret giftcards to all your Tumblr followers. Click to Enlarge As with the previous spam attacks …
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VIPRE Report for January 2012 Released
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February 9, 2012
Social engineering ploys doesn’t grow old—probably never will considering how effective they are no matter how simple. More often than not, online criminals doesn’t have to change their tactics to get unwary Internet users to do what they want them …
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Free Microsoft Points? Game Over, Man.
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February 8, 2012
There’s an Xbox code generator floating around on Youtube and other sites right now, and a pretty popular one at that. How popular? This popular: Click to Enlarge 20,000+ views so far. The program promises all sorts of Xbox freebies …
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Phishers Bank on Tax Season
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February 8, 2012
With the U.S. currently in tax season, online criminals have, once again, sought to take advantage of this. Robert Stetson, one of our malware researchers, spotted a phishing email posing as Intuit Inc., a company that “develops financial and tax …
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Message of Safety for Ladies on Facebook is a Hoax
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February 2, 2012
I encountered this “new way for rapists to lure girls” story years ago from another social networking site. I’m quite sad yet generally not surprised that it has already made its way to Facebook. click to enlarge The message goes: …
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![[UPDATED] Kelihos Botnet Gaining Momentum](http://www.gfi.com/blog/wp-content/themes/tttm/tttm/timthumb.php?src=http://www.gfi.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/kelihos-spam-300x270.jpg&w=123&h=129 "[UPDATED] Kelihos Botnet Gaining Momentum")
[UPDATED] Kelihos Botnet Gaining Momentum
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February 2, 2012
Last September of 2011, Microsoft and an anti-malware security company had joined forces to take down Kelihos, a botnet capable of sending out billions of spam in a day. These spam are related to pornography, Viagra, and fake pharmaceutical companies …
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Need Proof?
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February 1, 2012
I saw a thread over on Reddit regarding the “Funniest scam I’ve ever seen”. Unfortunately the main linked screenshot of the scam site is now offline, but someone provided the URL of the website in the comments so I thought …
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