Malware City/Blog

Aug
2

Summer malware campaign gets users infected

Filed Under: MISCELLANEOUS
Malware attached to spam messages collects names and addresses for future spamy crusades

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Malware City/Blog

Jan
24

What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas NOT

Filed Under: MISCELLANEOUS
Online pornographic content is likely to get you into trouble in more than one way

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Malware City/Blog

Oct
8

The Spam Omelette #63 – How about a nice cup of remote control?

Filed Under: SPAM REVIEW
Remember those newsletter spam messages? Keep’em coming! Welcome to this week’s issue of the Spam Omelette, the BitDefender report on the latest trends in the spam industry.

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Malware City/Blog

Feb
4

Win32.Worm.IM.J – the Worm Crawling the IM Network

Filed Under: WEEKLY REVIEW
Instant messaging services are once again targeted by malware authors!

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Malware City/Blog

Nov
27

Weekly Malware Review - Trojan.Agent.Delf.RHO Owns Your Yahoo Messenger Account

Filed Under: WEEKLY REVIEW
Instant messaging services are increasingly becoming essential parts of our lives, either for business or personal users, and it was just a matter of time until these applications got into malware authors’ crosshair.

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Malware City/Blog

Nov
18

Conficker – One Year After (Part Two)

Filed Under: MALWARE HISTORY
Getting beyond the myth

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Malware City/Blog

Sep
11

BitDefender weekly review – Password stealers and mail bombers

Filed Under: WEEKLY REVIEW
If you're playing Metin2, Flyff, MapleStoryhe, Lord of the Rings Online, Knight Online, Guild Wars or Age of Conan beware of the new account stealing Trojan that is currently spreading in the wild. Also take note of another malware that is transforming infected computers into spamming relays.

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Malware City/Blog

Aug
14

BitDefender weekly review – IRCBots and file infectors

Filed Under: WEEKLY REVIEW
This week a pretty simple but recyclable IRCBot caught out attention. Besides the fact that it allows remote control of the infected machine by the attacker, the only noteworthy fact about it is that it comes packed, which means that by the click of a button or two, a new morphed version of it can spread unhindered through anti-virus protected PCs.

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