Archive for March, 2009

26
Mar

Scareware Morphs Into Ransomware

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A new variant of an old malware has turned to digital kidnapping of data: Researchers at security vendor FireEye have discovered that malware formerly used to push "scareware" is now being used to push "ransomware." According to a FireEye blog, the malware known as Vundo is now infecting users with an exploit that encrypts the [...]

01
Mar

Scribble-A, Virut, Conflicker and other variants

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Some nasty new viruses spreading now.  These are file-infectors that take over executable files (.exe files). Please be wary of these viruses and any variants that you hear of. The IT team at protocol 80 recently eradicated Scribble-A from a client’s network, just a few short days after it’s definition being available in some anti-virus [...]