July’s Patch Tuesday came last week, but a new Trojan detected as TROJ_DLOADER.OWO comes on its tail posing as a reminder for users to update their word processor on Windows systems. Using one of the oldest tricks in the book, it displays a fake error message box with the following message upon execution: Please update…
Read MoreIf users wanted to download WinRAR, the popular archiver tool to process RAR and ZIP files, where would they go? Chances are, they’d type in the name of the tool itself and just add .com (www.winrar.com) in their browser’s address bar. Unbeknownst to them, however, the said site is not the official site from which…
Read MoreBogus news is old news. Whereas most email spam use “original” subject lines and message bodies that are actually just made up, a new threat dares to be different. Detected by Trend Micro as TROJ_PROXY.AFV, it arrives as an attachment to spammed email messages that use real news headlines. It uses any of the following…
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