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Fake Video Codecs and Fake AVs Bundled in a Single Attack Even though fake antivirus products advertised on shady websites have represented a successful attack vector, cybercriminals are beginning to rely on other strategies to launch their malicious campaigns. Video codecs that are allegedly needed to watch scandalous or outrageous videos are at the core of the latest sche...	7 December 2011 03:34 GMT

Emma Watson Video Hides Malicious Player A video promising adult content that features Emma Watson, Harry Potter's wizard friend from the movie, turns out to be the source of a nasty piece of malware that looks for a way to infect our system. Zscaler Threat Lab found the malicious link which supposedly points to a site that stores an "Emma Watson neve...	27 October 2011 14:41 GMT

Google Code Abused by Hackers McAfee warns that lots of fake Google Code projects have been created by cyber-criminals in order to push malware to unsuspecting users. The projects promote adult videos that prompt users to download malware in the form of fake video codecs. Google Code is a popular service used by numerous software developers to pr...	9 January 2009 05:45 GMT

Fake YouTube Infects with Trojans Seeing one's favorite celebrity in an exclusive video might be temping enough for many people to click on a link that promises to show them precisely this, especially if we're talking a link on a trusted website. Even more, if that website happens to be YouTube, then 90% of the people receiving it...	8 September 2008 06:52 GMT

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