Results for 'cryptowall'
A Week in Security (Sep 20 – Sep 26)
September 28, 2015 - Last week, we touched on a fake Grand Theft Auto (GTA) 5 money generator scam; a comprehensive overview of Ghostery, a...
A Week in Security (Aug 30 – Sep 05)
September 7, 2015 - Last week, we talked about a fake Android rooting tool, a supposedly unlimited offer of games that eventually ended in frustration,...
Malvertising Found on Dating Site Match[dot]com
September 3, 2015 - In an attack similar to the one that happened last month on PlentyOfFish, the UK version of online dating site Match.com was caught...
A Week in Security (Aug 02 – Aug 08)
August 11, 2015 - Last week, we saw a fake Android alert that blames Chinese hackers, a peculiar Facebook phishing campaign that is after your...
Large Malvertising Campaign Takes on Yahoo!
August 3, 2015 - June and July have set new records for malvertising attacks. We have just uncovered a large scale attack abusing Yahoo!’s own...
Advertising: The Digital Turf War on your Desktop
June 22, 2015 - Hello! Here’s your computer after ten minutes on the Internet: This nightmarish vision of “Buy all the things” is a very old...
A Week in Security (Jun 07 – Jun 13)
June 15, 2015 - Last week, we published a timely scam, a malvertising campaign, the final section of the 2-part piece of a certain exploit kit, and a...
Beware of GTA 5 Mods Containing Malware
May 15, 2015 - Yesterday, a reddit user posted about mods for GTA 5 containing malware. The affected mods were identified as No-Clip and Angry...
A Week in Security (Apr 12 – 18)
April 20, 2015 - Last week, our security researchers covered a number of 419 scams, with one taking lead from an old racket back in 2012;...
Flash EK Strikes Again via Google’s DoubleClick
April 16, 2015 - A few days ago, we blogged about a malvertising attack on the HuffingtonPost website via a major ad network which took...