Posts Tagged ‘malware’

Study of banking malware analyzes underground economy – SearchSecurity.com

Monday, December 29th, 2008

Using a Symantec Corp. study, the researchers estimated the potential value of the stolen credentials at several millions of dollars. …

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Amazon warns customers of infected digital photo frames – Computerworld

Monday, December 29th, 2008

AE,” the name assigned by Symantec Corp. Other security vendors, such as McAfee Inc. and Trend Micro Inc., have pegged the malware with other names, …

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Symantec Announces MessageLabs Intelligence 2008 Annual Security … – CNNMoney.com

Thursday, December 4th, 2008

Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ: SYMC) today announced the launch of its MessageLabs Intelligence 2008 Security Report. The annual report details how 2008 was a …Symantec identifies security trends ITWebSpam declines, Web-based attacks rise, says MessageLabs SearchSecurity.comWeb 2.0 The Malware Target Of The Future Security PronewsBusiness Standard - International Business Timesall 19 news articles

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Symantec to identify safe software by 'reputation' – ZDNet UK

Friday, October 24th, 2008

Symantec to identify safe software by 'reputation'ZDNet UK, UK - Oct 24, 2008Symantec will soon introduce a “reputation-based” software-rating technology that it has claimed can accurately differentiate malicious malware from …

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Trojan Warning – CNN Daily Top 10

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

Watch out for emails that bear the subject line CNN Daily top 10.

CNN Daily Top 10 Email Malware

 

All of the links in these emails point to a site in Germany that looks like similar to a real site, but displays a fake Flash Player upgrade message.

 

CNN Daily Top 10 Virus Flash Trojan Downloader - German Site Screenshot

 

Clicking on the upgrade message will in fact install a Downloader Trojan on your computer.

 

Read more about it on the mxlab blog:

 

http://blog.mxlab.be/2008/08/04/cnn-daily-top-10-leads-users-to-site-hosting-malware/