AegisLabs released a report that sums up the distribution of malware types in 2011 and the numbers are worryingly high.
Most of the 14 million unique pieces of malware detected on a global level were Trojans, their numbers representing close to 65% of all threats.
Around 11% were packed malware, totaling 1.5 mill... |
11 January 2012
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A wave of rogue private messages received by many Facebook users directs them to malicious websites serving a version of the Waledac trojan.According to scam tracking website Facecrooks, the messages read “I got you a surprise www.[random_name].blogspot.com”Several different blogspot URLs were observed in... |
7 December 2010
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According to a report from Romanian antivirus vendor BitDefender, around one in five Facebook users get malicious URLs in their news feeds on the social networking platform.The data was gathered by the company's free Facebook security application dubbed safego, which was released on October 26.Once installed in ... |
23 November 2010
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Security researchers claim that, as far as the number of malicious URLs is concerned, Twitter is pretty safe, which is a great improvement over how things were a year ago.This is a conclusion of a study performed by security vendor Zscaler, which used its cloud-based services to scan a number of 1.5 million URLs post... |
30 October 2010
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McAfee warns that fake antivirus applications, collectively known as scareware, are one of the driving forces behind the cybercriminal economy and have grown to account for nearly a quarter of all malware in circulation."Forget ghosts and goblins, what you should really be scared of this Halloween is 'scareware&... |
28 October 2010
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Using independently developed tools that scan tweets for threats, security researchers from Kaspersky and Trend Micro concluded that the micro-blogging platform has become a popular attack vector. The number of malicious URLs identified on Twitter suggest that the problem is slowly, but surely getting worse. Because... |
26 September 2009
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