Many people believe that Mac devices are inherently safe from malware and viruses, but this isn't necessarily true. Consider the Mac-based Flashback botnet, which is said to have stolen $10,000 per day in ad revenue.
When an infected user conducts a Google search, Flashback waits for someone to click on an ad. Instead of being taken to the intended location, Flashback s...
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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," ...
"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...
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