Quantcast
Channel: avast! blog » infection
Browsing latest articles
Browse All 6 View Live

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

gumblar.cn summary

In the previous month the World Wide Web was subject to one of the heaviest attacks since it first came into existence. Thousands of legitimate websites were attacked by the Trojan horses...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

avast! Free Antivirus – yes, it’s that good

New Zealand’s state MetService website was hijacked by malware (apparently a fake antivirus) during a particularly high time for traffic, according to a stuff.co.nz news article. The article has...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

The last frontier – Infected…

I’m not sure if I mentioned this already, but my wife went for a week-long holiday with friends last Friday therefore I’m quite busy babysitting this week, taking care of the kids and household, and,...

View Article

New Microsoft IE Zero-day attack

It was brought to our attention by this thorough Eric Romang article that a new zero-day exploit (an exploit actively used by cybercriminals in the wild) targets a bug in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

MSIE 0day – continued (with a bit of Flash as well)

While we were researching the websites currently serving the new Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) zero-day threat, we found that the new attack is being piggybacked on a slightly older attack aimed on...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Malware: Dollar Equals Tilde Square Brackets

Recently we encountered a very suspicious piece of code on some Joomla-powered webpages. The code looks as if garbled and without any special meaning, and starts like this: Upon closer observation,...

View Article
Browsing latest articles
Browse All 6 View Live