Free Discord Nitro Offer Used to Steal Steam Credentials

There’s a new scam making the rounds on Discord, through which cybercriminals can harvest Steam account information and make off with any value it contains. Gamer-aimed Discord scams are just about everywhere. But researchers flagged a new approach as noteworthy because it crosses over between...

Over A Billion Malicious Ad Impressions Exploit WebKit Flaw to Target Apple Users

The infamous eGobbler hacking group that surfaced online earlier this year with massive malvertising campaigns has now been caught running a new campaign exploiting two browser vulnerabilities to show intrusive pop-up ads and forcefully redirect users to malicious websites. To be noted, hackers...

Over A Billion Malicious Ad Impressions Exploit WebKit Flaw to Target Apple Users

The infamous eGobbler hacking group that surfaced online earlier this year with massive malvertising campaigns has now been caught running a new campaign exploiting two browser vulnerabilities to show intrusive pop-up ads and forcefully redirect users to malicious websites. To be noted, hackers...

Python-Based Adware Evolves to Install Malicious Browser Extensions

Security researchers have been warning of a few newly detected variants of python-based adware that are being distributed in the wild not only to inject ads but also found installing malicious browser extensions and hidden cryptocurrency miner into victims' computers. Dubbed PBot , or PythonBot ,...

Link hijacking attack one, two, three-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Blog post author: lake2 TSRC Release date: 2012-11-09 Blog post content: With application security development, we are more concerned about application security vulnerabilities, in fact, in the application layer below the Transport Layer there are also many security risks and the security risks...

Step 7: Practice Safe Browsing

Rogue antivirus and scareware typically requires user interaction to get a toe hold on victims’ computers. Users can protect themselves by steering clear of suspicious or merely opaque links such as the shortened links common on Twitter and other social media platforms. Beware of pop-up ads warni...

Fake AVG: Scam Software Cops Name and Logo of Real AV

We’ve noted for a while that the practices of rogue antivirus software have started to mimic those of legitimate antivirus software vendors. But a new version of FakeXPA scareware take things a bit further: posing as a legitimate commercial AV package, AVG Antivirus 2011. Microsoft’s Malware...

Update Protections against Recent Malware Threats (30-Mar-09)

The update includes new protections against 2 recent malware threats:Backdoor Trojan: Zlob - Zlob is backdoor Trojan that can be installed via malware downloader or exploits. It installs other applications that continuously connect to remote servers and downloads malicious scripts and...

From the IE pop-up ads look at rogue software principles-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

A lot of people affected by IE automatically pop-up ads plaguing it, here is a solution ideas, you can get the use of BHO（Browser Helper Objects, browser helper module, making waves of malware. Unfortunately this method is still relatively complex, only the master in use, I hope the master can he...

Gator/GAIN Spyware Installed

The remote host has Gator/GAIN Spyware Installed. Gator tracks the sites that users visit and forwards that data back to the company's servers. Gator sells the use of this information to advertisers. It also lets companies launch a pop-up ad when users visit various Web sites. This software is no...