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Inside a ‘Reveton’ Ransomware Operation
The U.S Federal Bureau of Investigation is warning about an uptick in online extortion scams that impersonate the FBI and frighten people into paying fines to avoid prosecution for supposedly...
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Crimeware Author Funds Exploit Buying Spree
The author of Blackhole, an exploit kit that booby-traps hacked Web sites to serve malware, has done so well for himself renting his creation to miscreants that the software has emerged as perhaps the...
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Krebs, KrebsOnSecurity, As Malware Memes
Hardly a week goes by when I don’t hear from some malware researcher or reader who’s discovered what appears to be a new sample of malicious software or nasty link that invokes this author’s name or...
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Styx Exploit Pack: Domo Arigato, PC Roboto
Not long ago, miscreants who wanted to buy an exploit kit — automated software that helps booby-trap hacked sites to deploy malicious code – had to be fairly well-connected, or at least have access to...
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Personalized Exploit Kit Targets Researchers
As documented time and again on this blog, cybercrooks are often sloppy or lazy enough to leave behind important clues about who and where they are. But from time to time, cheeky crooks will dream up a...
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Adobe Pushes Critical Flash Patch
For the second time this month, Adobe has issued a security update for its Flash Player software. New versions are available for Windows, Mac and Linux versions of Flash. The patch provides additional...
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Flash Patch Targets Zero-Day Exploit
Adobe today released an important security update for its Flash Player software that fixes a vulnerability which is already being exploited in active attacks. Compounding the threat, the company said...
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