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Friday, January 13, 2012

Moving House

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Yes, we are :) Click the image to visit the new GFI Labs Blog An inevitable move, this. After all, Sunbelt Software has been part of GF...
Thursday, January 12, 2012

Phishers Use US-CERT Email Address as Bait

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The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team   (simply known as US-CERT ) is the latest bait phishers used to get users to install ...
Wednesday, January 11, 2012

StalkTrak App gets Naked, Famous.

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"No way" indeed. The Naked and Famous were displaying the following Tweet on their feed earlier: Click to Enlarge Visitin...

GFI's Take on What Online Crime Will be Like in 2012

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In a recent release of GFI Software's VIPRE report, GFI Labs revealed that recycled tactics from cybercriminals will not cease this new ...

Bogus Video Game Crack Leads to Rootkit

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Matthew, one of our malware researchers at the AV Labs, came upon a MediaFire link on a YouTube account that purports to direct users to a...
Wednesday, January 04, 2012

2011: The Year that was for Facebook and Online Threats

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CommTouch , an Internet security service provider, has recently released their Internet Threats Trend Report for 2011. In this report, they...
Sunday, January 01, 2012

Team Meat Spun Right Round

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"It's fine, trust me. I've done this stuff for a while now." Famous last words . Team Meat, developers of Super Meat Bo...
Friday, December 30, 2011

Steam: All your coal are belong to us

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The rather awesome Steam gaming platform has a festive competition running at the moment - perform certain tasks in a selection of games dr...
Thursday, December 22, 2011

Hobbits and surveys: not a good combination

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It's not long since The Hobbit trailer made a lot of people very excited, and already we're seeing fake claims of "watch this ...
Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Phishers are Back to Target Chase Clients

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Robert Stetson, one of our malware researchers at the AV Labs, found a new phishing scam in the wild. The scam arrives as an email that di...
Friday, December 16, 2011

"Curious Who's Stalking You?" - Yes, we've heard it before

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This social media "stalking" thing, to the best of my knowledge, all began on MySpace . We've seen them emerge on Twitter , to...
Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Protecting Against DDoS is Probably THE Best Holiday Gift to Give Your Company

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For the lot of us who rely on the Internet to get news updates, we are made familiar with Distributed Denial of System (DDoS) attacks. Anon...
Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Adblock Fuss

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I'm a big fan of Adblock Plus - it's a great add on if you don't want to be hit over the head with any number of spinning, flash...

Blackhole Exploit Hones in on Amazon Users

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Last week, our friends at ThreatPost posted about the ever-growing infection of websites hosting Black Hole Exploit Kits . A Black Hole exp...
Friday, December 09, 2011

More bad ads in Bing, Yahoo search

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Another round of bad ads in Bing and Yahoo search are making an unwelcome return. Bing has fake Firefox adverts:  Click to Enlarge  Click...
Wednesday, December 07, 2011

Holiday Horrors: food stamps, phish and PDFs

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Our monthly Top Ten threat detection report for the month of November is now available to take a look at, along with information on some of ...

"For your protection, your Barclays account has been suspended..."

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If you see an email arrive in your mailbox with the above title, feel free to discard it - nothing good will come of it, unless your idea of...
Monday, December 05, 2011

"Steam Birthday" crashed by party poopers

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Here's a rather amateur phish targeting Steam users, located at steambirthday(dot)com. No birthday prizes for guessing what this scam i...
Tuesday, November 29, 2011

New Facebook Worm in the Wild

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Our friends at CSIS , a Danish security company, has spotted a worm spreading within the Facebook platform. In a recent news article  penne...
Monday, November 28, 2011

FakeScanti Rogue Hijacks HOSTS Files

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Patrick, our resident rogue AV expert from the AV Labs, have his eyes set on one particular family— FakeScanti . This rogue family first app...

"Così fan tutte"

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A company who make installers distributing the software of third parties recently contacted us to query a detection. As it turns out, their ...