Archive for the 'Malicious Websites' Category
Saw this post over on TorrentFreak, where they have found some of the sites that are stuffing malware on users machines, making money tricking novice users into installing bad clients, bad media players and Winzip-like software.
However, there are companies out there who give you ‘free’ software (like a torrent client) but at the same [...]
According to a write-up by the PaperGhost from Facetime Communications, there is a new threat on MySpace, one involving fake anti spyware programs and default user behavior that everyone needs to get out of. Check out the screenshot below.
If you are browsing MySpace and you get the popup below, or ANYTHING similar, do not download [...]
I saw this article from Light Blue Touchpaper a blog by researchers in the Security Group at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory describing how long the average phishing site existed online. It depended on a number of things, but mostly I guess it depends on banks getting them taken down. The paper that Tyler [...]
Stopbadware and this site are going to get along very well; today they released a press release that detailed five hosting companies that host a BUNCH of malicious websites distributing software to unsuspecting users with unsuspecting webmasters, although some could certainly be doing it on purpose. Most sites were probably hacked using a flaw in [...]
