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Porn virus publishes web history of victims on the net
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| PCs using file-share sites and publishes the
| user's net history on a public website before
| demanding a fee for its removal.
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| The Japanese trojan virus installs itself on
| computers using a popular file-share service
| called Winni, used by up to 200m people.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8622665.stm
New Ransomware Targets Porn Pirates, Makes Copyright Threats
http://techdirt.com/articles/20100415/0755139021.shtml
MS kernel patch skirts infected machines
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| Microsoft's latest batch of patches contains
| a kernel update designed not to install on
| machines infected with a rootkit.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/16/ms_kernel_patch_bypasses_pwned_pcs/
Zeus spyware pretends to be Royal Mail PDF
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| Once infected, compromised machines 'phone
| home' to hacker controlled servers in China.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/16/zeus_pdf_spyware/
Zeus botnet exploits unpatched PDF flaw
http://www.techworld.com.au/article/343313/zeus_botnet_exploits_unpatched_pdf_flaw?fp=2&fpid=1&rid=1
Researchers find bugs in archive file formats
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| Most antivirus vendors have patched their
| applications in order to detect the tampered
| archive file formats, such as ".rar," and
| ".zip," said Tomislav Pericin, founder of the
| commercial software protection project
| RLPack.
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http://www.techworld.com.au/article/343274/researchers_find_bugs_archive_file_formats?fp=2&fpid=1&rid=1
Hentai malware publishes web history of marks online
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| Some bogus files posing as games from Abel
| software attempt to trick victims into
| handing over personal information as part of
| a supposed game registration process.
| Meanwhile, in the background, the malware is
| collecting information on the victim's
| computer including domain, OS version, file
| use history and IE favourites.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/16/smut_malware_shakedown/
Fake anti-virus scams on the rise, Google says
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| In a blog post previewing a 13-month study on
| the prevalence of fake AVs on the Web, Google
| said that more than 11,000 individual domains
| were involved in the distribution of these
| scams. According to Google, that figure
| accounts for roughly 15 percent of all
| malicious software on the Internet.
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/techchron/detail?blogid=19&entry_id=61493
Recent:
One-third of Security Essentials users infected: Microsoft
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| Almost a third of the customers who have
| installed Microsoft's free Security
| Essentials software have been found to be
| suffering from major malware infections.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/28745/53/
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