TeamTNT’s New Tools Target Multiple OSes

The TeamTNT malware pushers have a slew of new toys with which to wreak havoc – multiple shell/batch scripts, open-source tools, a cryptocurrency miner, an IRC and more – that have inflicted more than 5,000 infections globally as antivirus AV tools struggle to catch up with the newest malware...

A Look Deep Inside the Scareware Epidemic

Kaspersky Lab malware analyst Vyacheslav Zakorzhevsky has written an in-depth article describing the scareware fake anti-virus epidemic. The article touches on the common distribution techniques, the tricks used to scare users into paying fraudsters for a removal tool and the way code generators...