Starting a few days ago, inconsistently and a few seconds after browsing the Ynet home page, my browser would be redirected to another site where I received a warning dialog that implied my system could be infected with spyware or adware or something along those lines.
Technorati Tags: malicious ads, malicious sites, malware sites
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It’s not often that you get what looks like good news on the malware front. Reading the blogs of some of the people who track it - such as F-Secure, Alex Eckelberry of Sunbelt Software, and the Greynets blog - you could think that we’re All Doomed, because the folks writing malware know that they’re [...]
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Organizations and law enforcement agencies fighting spyware are making progress, but new tools in an antispyware bill stalled in the U.S. Congress could improve the efforts, a member of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said Monday. One of the spyware bills passed by the House of Representatives earlier this year, the Spy Act, would give [...]
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Many websites utilize a challenge-response mechanism know as CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) to protect against automating the creation of user accounts, content, or otherwise abusing services they provide. Most common CAPTCHA systems work by generating distorted characters, text, or pictures that can be easily recognized by the [...]
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Websense Security Labs has confirmed that the Storm worm has once again switched lure tactics. The worm has now adopted a Halloween twist in its attempts to infect users with malicious code. The first copies of the new emails began going out just before 9:00am PST on Tuesday, October 30th. As with previous Storm emails, [...]
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Websense Security Labs has discovered a new Trojan horse using real data from the World Bank. As in past targeted attacks, the samples that we have captured appear to be using names and email addresses taken from the contact pages of the legitimate site. In this case, the email body includes the name of a [...]
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Websense Security Labs has discovered a new Trojan Horse / DNS redirector being distributed via email with URL lures. The email message is written in Spanish and presented in HTML. It attempts to lure users click on a link in order to download the business version of Skype.
Technorati Tags: business skype, skype malware, skype phishing
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