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Yahoo and Microsoft’s instant messenger applications are under attack from malware that is able to infect a PC without any interaction from the user. The malware can automatically infect a user’s contacts or "friends" lists across both company’s instant messenger platforms.

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A variety of malware threats, rather than one specific virus, dominated the security landscape this February, according to security firm BitDefender.. However, the company said that all the threats in its Top 10 Malware List for February used the same packing method to obfuscate the payload.

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Malware is rarely good news, but occasionally there is an upside. It introduced me to the online communities that exist to help the infected - and perhaps it helped to save some hedgehogs, an outcome I’m certain the malware authors could never have foreseen.

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Sports fan sites being compromised by malicious authors is not unheard of. We’ve seen it happen to a Jets fan site in early January this year, and we’re seeing it again in another fan site–this time of Arsenal, a popular English soccer team.

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As users of the Internet we face security threats every day. Nefarious hackers (not all hackers are), viruses, and spyware are rampant when browsing online and not taking precautions can mean lost data or even worse, identity theft. Frankly, if you’re computer is unprotected, you are rolling the dice every time you go online.

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Trojan.Pandex was first found in early 2007 and is a Trojan that is primarily used to send spam. Obviously the author has more ambition than to stick with simply spamming because we’ve observed the Trojan enhancing its functions continuously over the past month or so.

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puresafetyhere.com is known to be spyware-related. It will hijack Internet Explorer and set “puresafetyhere.com” as homepage. As a result, puresafetyhere.com will generate false error messages or system alerts, and trick user to purchase rogue anti-spyware programs, such as IEDefender, Virus Heal, Marware Burn, VirusProtect, etc.

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A Google-hosted blog is running phony security content that’s linked to malware, as well as using Google’s automated notification service to try to entice subscribers to click on an infected link, says one security expert.

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Interestingly the new year 2008 opened its doors with a surprising news in the malware field. Hardware infected? Yes, again malware guys have showed their extraordinary fantasy to spread panic and disasters over the computer world. According to recent reports by SANS Internet Storm Center there is a new trend to transmit malwares through hardware [...]

There’s no such thing as New Year in the virus world. And it’s definitely not a time for seeing out the old and bringing in the new. Statistics for January show that the malware and potential malicious programs in circulation are remarkably similar to those in last month’s rankings.

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Life’s too short to live in uncertainty, the stakes are too high. A month ago, I indicated the upcoming release of the third version of the script kiddies favorite Shark Malware. Despite that after the negative publicity of the malware that’s actually promotd as a RAT, the authors supposedly abondoned the malware, they seem to [...]

For the past year, I’ve been writing about the use of iframes to compromise legitimate Web sites with links to malicious code servers. It’s easy for criminal hackers to compromise a site if it is poorly managed and open to cross-site scripting attacks (think ma-and-pa e-commerce sites). Over the summer, automated versions of these attacks [...]

This is turning into quite a week for computer security. Microsoft issued a rare out of band security alert concerning Excel; BusinessWeek’s home page has been the victim of a hack and more than 400 banks are the targets of a new Trojan. If that wasn’t enough, the one year anniversary of the Storm worm [...]

The amount of malware captured last year increased by 800 percent over 2006, researchers said this week. The increase was a substantial jump from 2006, when malware examples increased by 172 percent over 2005, according to Panda Security. Researchers at the Madrid-based anti-virus vendor received an average of more than 3,000 strains of malware per [...]

The Storm worm was very active over Christmas and new year, which has strengthened their bot network, which we believe could potentially contain hundreds of thousands of drone machines. This appears to be one of the worst botnets currently working and known.

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