The news source said the worm points users toward a heavily infected websitevia a shortened link. The images on the websites are supposedly leading to ZIP files filled with malware, including the Steckct-EVL virus.
"If opened the archive goes to work disabling security software on infected PCs before downloading a second strain of malware onto compromised Windows PCs," ...
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"We never run ads on Wikipedia," said Philippe Beaudette, director of community advocacy for the Wikimedia Foundation, in a blog post. "If you're seeing advertisements for a for-profit industry ... or anything but our fundraiser, then your web browser has likely been infected with malware."
One type of malware that could lead to this type of bogus ad is a Google Chrome ...
"We've recently discovered a series of attacks being carried out by a P2P variant of the Zeus platform against some of the internet’s leading online services and websites," Trusteer said in a blog post, adding that the malware comes from an ad purporting to offer rebates and new security measures to users who click on it. "The scams exploit the trust relationship between...
A malware program's update may have harmed millions of computers.What happens when the doctor gets sick? ZDNet recently reported that German security company Avira released a defective antivirus update the brought Windows computers to a "screeching halt."
With the new update, the antivirus program starts going after critical computing processes th...
"The main infection method was email messages luring victims to web sites running a variety of exploit kits," according to the report. "The victim would typically receive an email message from a business or the government informing them of an issue with their account. This would contain a reasonable looking link to a web site. The web site would actually host an exploit ki...
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