The Global Cyber War from MentalWardPublishing.com presented free by McGuinnessPublishing.com
Virus authors have developed a strain of malware that attempts to con users into uninstalling legitimate security packages.
A rogue package called AnVi Antivirus generates a cheeky pop-up message suggesting that legitimate apps are “uncertified” and ought to be removed. Failure to take action would result in drastically degraded computer performance, marks are disingenuously warned.
Many malware [...] Read more »
Hundreds of computer geeks, most of them students putting themselves through college, crammed into three floors of an office building in an industrial section of Ukraine’s capital Kiev, churning out code at a frenzied pace. They were creating some of the world’s most pernicious, and profitable, computer viruses.
According to court documents, former employees and investigators, [...] Read more »
Fake antivirus programs that encourage Web users to part with their hard-earned cash and download hoax security software is likely to be the most costly scam of 2010, says McAfee.
According to the security firm, cybercriminals make upwards of $300 million from conning web users worldwide into downloading scareware.
The security firm also said it had seen [...] Read more »
Cybercrooks have developed a new technique for manipulating search engine results in order to promote the crud they sell, such as scareware packages.
Hackers first place benign pdf files on web pages they are seeking to promote, before replacing these documents with booby-trapped Flash files once a new site has been indexed.
The ruse, which featured in [...] Read more »
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