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Malware in Yahoo,Fox and Google

admin — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 08:23:55 +0000

Malicious software (malware) is also transmitted through Yahoo, Fox, and Google. This was conveyed by Avast antivirus. Last year, the viruses and malware are even found on some sites that have high traffic, such as The New York Times.
Whereas this year, several IT sites, like TechCrunch and WhitePages.com also still have to work hard to overcome these cyber attacks. Malware distribution practices like this one called “malvertising.”
Today, some researchers from Avast also pointed to several ad delivery platforms, including Yahoo! Yield Manager and the Fox Network Fimserve.com. Both ads include a 50 percent smaller in number than DoubleClick to Google. In the meantime, Avast claims that several tributaries of the malicious ads two leading sites, including Yahoo and Google.
Lyle Frink (public relations manager for Avast), said that the spread of malware these cases not only involve a small player, but also connected with major ad server, such as Google and Yahoo that have been infected and present a bad ad. However, Avast explained that there were a number of systems smaller ads, including Myspace, which allegedly also has a contribution in the spread of low-scale advertising.

Beware Scam at World Cup 2010

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 02:29:52 +0000

The most prestigious soccer tournament, World Cup (World Cup) in 2010, precisely on June 11 next will be held.
With the presence of the World Cup, the 3.1 million tickets will be sold. In addition, there will be more than 400 million people worldwide who watch every game on television. Many fans who use the Internet to find tickets, accommodation, and flights. However, be careful. The problem cyber criminals such as spammers or scammers are scheming to attack Internet users to manipulate the World Cup.
Paul Wood (senior analyst at Symantec Hosted Services), said that the biggest football tournament this world would attract more than 1 billion fans, including cyber criminals. “According to history, sports events such as large-scale, this will lead to an increase in the number of cyber threats,” explained Wood.
“Phishing attacks increased 66% during the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008. Facts about put two undersea communication cables in the South African coast last July also exacerbate the threat level. History shows that evil activity increased in a country following the availability of new bandwidth, “added Wood through a written statement.
Therefore, users should be careful. The attack is called a 419 scam, spam, and phishing will disguise and woo Internet users through special offers related to the event. To avoid easy. “The rule is, if one looks very unlikely to be true, it probably is a scam,” beber Gordon Love (Africa Regional Director, Symantec).
These cyber criminals with some even picking up orek users’ personal information, the following bank account number, and credit card number for the user’s money drain. Sites that urge vigilance against any scam or spam is rampant.
Not wits, cyber criminals and then poison the user by displaying their fake web site on the first level of search results. “Users often assume that sites that appear first are legitimate sites / original, and perhaps to click these sites without first checking the source,” added Love. So, beware!

McAfee : Spammer at Tragedy News

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 02:16:56 +0000

“Jackson Still Life”, “Obama condemned the Pope”. That part of the subject that used to deceive the people through infected email.

Most, spam spread by “riding” on the topics of hot news, as reported in McAfee’s “Threat Report Q4 (PDF)” which was released in mid-February. The case of Air France plane crash and death of Michael Jackson in June 2009 continue to be a top theme for the email spammers during the year 2009, noted McAfee. Swine influenza (swine flu) also have contributed to the spread of malware to exploit the user.

Meanwhile, hacktivism (cyberattack political background) increased in the year 2009. In October of that year, the government of Poland reported experiencing an attack from Russia. Then the next interval of two months, namely December, a group calling itself the Army Cyber attack Iran to employees Twitter, Microblogging site that was up leaves.

Still in the same month, an email from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in the UK are also affected by a hacker attack about two weeks before the ongoing climate conference in Copenhagen. Based on these events, some people believe that the attack launched by Russian hackers are hired to ward off global warming.

For the category of the world, the United States (U.S.) holds the title as largest spam producer. Followed by Brazil and India. Whereas most populous country in the world, China managed to bypass the United States and accused the suppliers of successful zombie botnet to infect computers to spread spam. “China has become a giant zombie with relying on SQL injection attacks,” explained Mike Gallagher (Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of McAfee Labs) in a statement.

Actually, the amount of spam last year had dropped in the fourth quarter by 24 percent over the third quarter. The volume of junk email (junk) in the whole world is still at an average amount of 135.5 billion per day. In conclusion, spammers still will rely on the news especially tragedy to trap victims.

Celebrate Valentine Days with Spam

admin — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:17:20 +0000

Valentine’s Day is coming and spammers are getting ready with a thousand other tricks to attack Internet users.

One vendor provider of Internet security services, Symantec by Symantec Security Response observed five major subjects related to spam Valentine. Even spammers have time forÃ‚Â offer to buy for aÃ‚Â partner engagement ring online. Among such attacks are:

Increase your length, the best Valentine’s gift Get it before Valentine’s day and watch her smile.
You have been invited to partake in a shopping Spree with [Removed] This Month for Valentines!
Happy Early Valentine’s Day, you have been to go on a $ 1000 Shopping Spree to [Removed]

Well, if you do not want to receive a surprise gift from malware or phishing attacks on Valentine’s Day, there is the trick. Symantec recommends the following best practices that you stay safe while online.

* Be careful of what you click. Do not be easily tempted by the links pitched persuade;
* Remember to never respond to spam. Your response will tell the spammers he has reached an active email address, and this will further expand the incoming spam. By karen it, delete suspicious emails without reading them;
* Have several email addresses for some purposes. Have a special email address for personal use, which is known only to family, friends and colleagues. Another email address can be used for mailing lists and newsletters, and the other for online search and shopping;
* Watch where you post your email address. To avoid being caught by a robot that collects email addresses, do not post the full email address on each web page accessible to the public;
* Apply protection: Make sure you use the latest security solutions that protect against spam and viruses, but still allowing legitimate emails into

Beware, Trap at Facebook and Twitter

admin — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:07:07 +0000

Sixty per cent of businesses claimed that Facebook is a risk social networking site, as revealed by the security vendor, Sophos.
Meanwhile, a similar opinion was also expressed by Kaspersky Labs pointed Microblogging site Twitter, which was rising-a second networking site after Facebook risky.
Sophos did a survey of 502 IT professionals. The result, business was seeing a lot of malware and spam floating around the virtual realm.
The Sophos report titled “Security Threat Report: 2010″, mentions that as many as 33 percent of IT professionals to choose blocking Facebook for productivity reasons, while 21 percent of survey respondents reported that they or a network of friends who have received malware via social networking sites will lost control of the site access. As many as 72 percent of the company also believed that employees who often had a tendency for Facebook ria could endanger the company’s business.
Another horrendous thing to come from Twitter. Dmitry Bestuzhez (Senior Regional Researcger Kaspersky Labs), reveals that Twitter has been offered for U.S. $ 1000 by a hacker forum. “Tweet can contain URLs. Well, most of the users trust to click the link in the tweet. This is certainly a trap for many people to act criminal. The more follower, the more the risk of malware infection, “explained Bestuzhez. This is where the danger. Sendible facility could be misused in the spread of malware. The reason is assumed Twitter can be used to infect other malware to your account.

Beware,Facebook still become a target of spammer

admin — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:08:34 +0000

The voluntary researchers Project Honey Pot based, warned that spammers are likely still will increase its efforts to ensnare the Facebook users through an evil scheme.
“Spammers are in it will try to build the confidence of Facebook users that can later be slid smoothly into Facebook,” said Matthew Prince (co-creator of Project Honey Pot and Criminal Law Professor John Marshall Law School in Chicago) via Times Online .
Prince explained again that the methods they use may be in the form of ancient methods and predictable, such as pretending to be a prisoner in jail and needed the money as collateral. According to Prince, cyber crime can be done by accessing the online identity using a password hacking process variant word every day in just a few minutes. In addition, the explosion of Facebook applications is also a fertile ground for cyber criminals to take advantage, how to send a link that will direct our friends to the fake link.
Meanwhile, anti-virus company McAfee also offers McAfee anti-virus to Facebook users for free. The number of malicious bots are achieving four-fold since 2004, with nearly 400,000 active bots engaged in criminal activities during the past 2009 years.

Threats at Facebook,Twitter and iPhone

admin — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 01:55:24 +0000

In the year 2010, the security threat for users of social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter estimated more frenzied. , Security vendor McAfee spoke. “In 2009 we saw an increase in attacks on web sites that web users use ,” explained one of his spokesmen.
“The number of Facebook users who reach 350 million to make us believe that the year 2010 will carry a security case that the trend is increasing,” the spokesman said. “Writer malware likes and pleased to join the social networking sites, even the activities to its hot spots will continue in the year 2010,” he explained.
Restrictions on Twitter system which only 140 make the user relyÃ‚Â service URL shortcut, like bit.ly, tinyurl.com. This step is then used by the attacker as a ruse for the user.
“This trick will play a more dominant role in 2010. With this trick, they can direct users to a malicious link that is disguised” according to a report written by Dmitri Alperovitch, Toralv Dirro, Paula Greve , Rahul Kashyap, David Marcus, Sam Masiello, Franois Paget, and Craig Schmugar of McAfee Labs.
The success of Apple’s iPhone is also a part of diversity trigger the application. The latest facts, Facebook already offers more than 350,000 active and Apple applications App Store recently reached 100,000 target. As a result, many users blindly distribute the application. Extensive land also facilitate identity theft. User expectations will increase 2.0 Web services also triggered many false services that are hidden is set to steal data

India become a hackers target

admin — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 12:58:34 +0000

Government offices in India are also suspected to be the target of attacks by hackers from China. According to a report quoted from PCWorld.

MK Narayanan, as the Indian national security adviser, said that the attack occurred on December 15 and coincided with several U.S. companies are also dihack. Meanwhile, Google also suffered a hacker attack in mid-December, an attack thought to have come from China. As a result, many countries intellectual assets lost due to theft.

Nayaranan explain again, that the attacks in India conducted via email with PDF attachment that contains a virus “Trojan”. “It opens the way for a hacker to access your computer remotely, and download or delete files,” said Narayanan.

Pulled back slightly, India and China had engaged in war in 1962, the relationship eventually deteriorated and both for one year. India now also has put China operations of technology companies like Huawei Technology. The Indian government had been openly expressed concern related to the use of telecommunications equipment from China vendor, especially in border areas

Beware, Windows 7 will be attack

admin — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 02:15:28 +0000

If you have questions: which operating system the most infected with malware? The answer is certain Windows. Although Microsoft has patched the regular gaps in the output of each new OS, it still was not dispelled the interest of the programmer to attack him.

Likewise with the new Windowing being used, Windows will become a target forÃ‚Â malware.” As the OS is the most widely used, Windows is an easy target of malware. Moreover, OS was considered to have a lot of security holes that can be penetrated. Recently launched, Microsoft has launched the first security patches for the operating system. Since Windows 7 has started to circulate and is expected to attract attention in 2010, no doubt the attacker would have to find ways to exploit them.

That is one of several points expressed in the prediction Symantec security trends in 2010. Through a press release, they also give special attention to the spread of malware via the Internet. Especially with the growing use of social networking and instant messaging.

The popularity of social networking is expected to be higher off next year to make the amount of fraud will also continue to balance the growth of the site’s users. More and more attackers tried to trick users Facebook and Twitter to spread malware or obtain data & personal information. In addition to passing the old tricks such as phishing, the attack would also be done via the security hole on third-party applications (API). When a user can be enrolled in an online game on Facebook, at the same time their profile sabotaged by the parties are not responsible.

For users of Twitter and instant messaging, the potential dangers arise through URL shortcut services. Because users often do not know where they will be delivered by a shortened URL, fraud can hide the real malicious link. Also in order to avoid CAPTCHA technology, attacks through instant messenger (IM) will increase its popularity. Threats through IM will consist of spam messages that contain unwanted malicious link, particularly attacks aimed at the active IM accounts. At the end of 2010, Symantec estimates that, overall, one of the 12 hyperlink will lead to a known domain name is used to contain malware.

The key points outlined other Symantec, among others: increasing the number of fake security software manufacturer, botnet constantly changing quickly (fast flux) increases, an increase of malware that attack mobile devices and Mac, as well as specialized functions of malware.

Faced with all these threats, the industry quickly realized that the traditional approach to antivirus, either by signature files and the ability heuristic / behavioral, not enough to protect against the latest threats. PC must be complete with full internet security package. The price is now even more affordable, comparable to the burden of his task in maintaining important data users.

But equally important is the awareness of the variety of types of user security attacks. Because any sophisticated technology, users retain the main role.

Beware of Flickering Ads

admin — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 08:39:00 +0000

Be careful when surfing the Internet. Cybercrime now use fear the user to use and buy a fake security software. Symantec Corp, announced the results of the study entitled Report on Rogue Security Software. The study was conducted based on data for 12 months from July 2008 until June 2009.

Fake security software or “scareware” that software is claimed as the original security software. Perhaps the application can install malicious programs or reduce the overall computer security.

User concerns is the gap that allows the attacker to give such false advertising. The ads usually give false claims like “if the flickering ads, your computer may be at risk or infected.” This in turn forces the user to follow a link to scan their computers or get “some” software to eliminate the threat.

According to the study, 93% software installation of fake security software are 50 top downloaded intentionally by the user. Until June 2009, Symantec has detected more than 250 kinds of fake security software programs.

Users not only losses from the financial aspect, but also personal data and credit card information provided during the purchase. As a result, the data can be used for other scams and sold in the forums black market that ended with identity theft.

Meanwhile, many methods used to trick users so they must download software. For example, by relying on scare tactics to frighten and other social engineering tricks. Fake security software is advertised through a variety of ways, ranging from malicious Web site or an official such as blogs, forums, social networking sites and adult sites. So, stay alert if they find the ads flickering.