Malware City/Blog

Jul
15

Beware: Rogue AV Disguised as Bank Statement

Filed Under: MISCELLANEOUS
Watch out if you get email messages with attachments named like “Financial_Statement.exe” or “Postal_document.exe” – they mean trouble

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Malware City/Blog

Apr
27

Block Autorun Malware with BitDefender USB Immunizer

Filed Under: MISCELLANEOUS
A low-footprint tool to protect both your USB stick and your computer

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Malware City/Blog

Feb
2

5 Things you didn’t Know About Rogue AV

Filed Under: MISCELLANEOUS
For about three years, Rogue Antivirus has been one of the most important businesses for cyber-criminals. No wonder why these rogue applications are so popular, since all these cyber-crooks have to do is to design an eye-candy interface, build a product that lacks any kind of functionality and sell it at prices that, sometimes, are higher than what the user would pay for a genuine product.

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Malware City/Blog

Nov
15

Malware removal tools, anyone?

Filed Under: ALERTS
When good things go wrong.

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Malware City/Blog

Oct
28

0-Day Bug in Firefox 3.5 & 3.6 - Update Now!

Filed Under: VULNERABILITIES
A 0-day security flaw has been making its rounds for the past two days. While we usually warn users about this type of incidents, we decided to keep the information as private as possible, as the no vendor patch was available at the moment.

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Malware City/Blog

Aug
12

Fake Windows® Patch comes with Twin Goodies in the Bag

Filed Under: ALERTS
Fresh on the trails of a new zero-day Windows® vulnerability announcement and of a genuine patch release, a fake patch supposedly plugging “34 [Windows® operating system] security holes” rises to fame by delivering a spamming bot and a Trojan downloader in one go. No cherries on top.

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Malware City/Blog

Aug
10

Gmail Hacking App Leaves you Locked on the Outside

Filed Under: PHISHING ALERT
Live by the sword, die by the sword

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Malware City/Blog

Jun
11

Keyloggers Posting on Webpages

Filed Under: MISCELLANEOUS
Numerous keystroke logger entries have piled up on Pastebin.com giving rise to suspicions of massive keylogger infestations

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