Suddenly an ad appears on the webpage on your screen. You try to delete it, but nothing works. You go to another page. And another and another. The ad keeps following you. It’s the newest ransomware scam from Russian hackers. The Ransomware Trojan is either dropped onto systems already compromised by other strains of malware, [...]
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Fake Software: Cybercrime product of the year
Published by July 18th, 2009 in Botnets, CyberCrime, Viruses and Worms & Trojans. 0 CommentsIn its midyear report on cyber security, Cisco Systems names rogue anti-virus software the cybercrime product of the year. There is a lot of great software that you can get for little or nothing from the freeware and shareware communities. There is also a lot of very dangerous free software being pushed by cyber criminals. [...]
Iran War Report a Hoax to Invade Your PC
Published by July 14th, 2008 in CyberCrime and Worms & Trojans. 0 CommentsHackers are using a phony news report to trick people into going to a malicious web page that displays what appears to be a video player showing the mushroom cloud of a nuclear explosion. The text under the picture reads, “Just now US Army’s Delta Force and US Air Force have invaded Iran. Approximately 20000 [...]
Happy birthday, America
Published by July 4th, 2008 in Botnets, CyberCrime and Worms & Trojans. 0 CommentsToday, we Americans celebrate Independence Day…our 232nd birthday. It’s a day of parades, family get-togethers, barbecues, and fireworks. A day for relaxing and fun. A day for reflecting on the wonder of the American experiment. Cyber-crooks will be launching some fireworks of their own, flooding cyberspace with millions of booby-trapped e-greeting cards. Experts are expecting [...]
Google “Kraken” and you’ll learn that the name refers to a legendary giant sea monster capable of swallowing up whole ships. It’s also the name of a new bot worm that swallows up personal computers by the hundreds of thousands, according to a story from Dark Reading. The article, published in April 2008, claims the [...]
Michael Fiora’s Nightmare
Published by June 20th, 2008 in CyberCrime, Internet Security, Spyware, Viruses and Worms & Trojans. 0 CommentsFirst he was fired. Then he was arrested. When Michael Fiola’s laptop computer was stolen back in November 2006, his employer, the Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents, gave him a replacement. It was a ticking time bomb. A few months later, officials noted that his usage account was 4 times normal. On investigating, they found [...]