Twitter spammers infect users with fake antivirus programs

A large spam campaign observed on Twitter during the last couple of days directed users to malicious websites that exploited vulnerabilities in browser plug-ins to infect their computers with rogue antivirus programs, according to security researchers from antivirus firm Kaspersky Lab. While monitoring the spam campaign for several hours, Kaspersky’s…

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Facebook adverts infect users with malware

Antivirus vendor Trend Micro has recently detected a drive-by download attack on Facebook that used malicious advertisements to infect users with malware. “We encountered an infection chain, wherein the user is led from a page within Facebook to a couple of ad sites, and then finally to a page that…

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A Mouse Can Infect Your Network

Much of the computer security blogosphere was abuzz last week over NetraGard’s clever hack of a client’s network using a specially modified Logitech mouse USB mouse. The mouse contained firmware code that automatically launched when the socially engineered user plugged it in to his or her computer. The attack code…

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