Users of iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch and can heave a sigh of relief as Apple has kept its word and released a security patch for a vulnerability that could have exposed the concerned devices to malicious attacks. The vulnerability existed in Apple’s Safari browser and the way it handled Adobe Acrobat PDF documents. For […]
Microsoft has released its security bulletin for August 2010. This month Microsoft has released 15 bulletins, addressing total 32 vulnerabilities. Out of the 15 bulletins, nine bulletins have been rated “Critical” and six bulletins have been rated “Important”. 11 bulletins are related to “Remote Code Execution” vulnerability and four bulletins are related to “Elevation of […]
A new variant of TrojanPSW.Zbot campaign themed – FDIC has officially named your bank failed bank – An unauthorized transaction billed to your bank account – You are in a higher tax bracket – Your Order with Amazon.com” is currently flooding the mailboxes The email pretends to be from the – American Bankers Association – […]
Recently we have received e-mails which leads to new Rogueware infection and the e-mail are sent using well known brand names like Macy’s, Costco Photo Center. E-mail contains a below URL which is a fake online scanner and it offers you to download file antivirus_2.exe later on. hxxp://ho[xxxx]ami.cz.cc/scanner5/?afid=24 The file “antivirus_2.exe” downloads and installs Rogueware […]
Microsoft has released updates to resolve the vulnerability which is discussed in Security Advisory 2286198 and which is being exploited. More information regarding the vulnerability can be found on the below links https://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/2286198.mspx https://blogarchive.quickheal.com/index.php?/archives/166-CVE-2010-2568-LNK-file-automatically-executes-code-in-Control-Panel-shortcuts.html https://blogarchive.quickheal.com/index.php?/archives/167-StuxNet,-CVE-2010-2568-misconceptions-and-facts.html The patch to resolve the vulnerability is released and it is available to download visit below link. https://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms10-046.mspx We recommend […]
Popularity of Twitter is growing and so are the scams on this popular social networking website. Its kind of cool to have Twitter account and having thousands of followers on Twitter is kind of icing on cake. This greed of having more followers is being targeted by the scammers on Twitter. Few months back I […]
A variant of the Trojan family Drooptroop leads to the infection of Rougeware named Security Master AV. It redirects the google result to a fake online scanner link. It displays fake threat messages and asks user to download or run the rougeware setup: QuickHeal detects the setup file as TrojanDownloader.FraudLoad.gxv and Rougeware is detected as […]
Black Hat 2010 will kick start few hours from now. Lot of security experts and security community guys and gals will be looking forward for the latest news and happenings there. I am one of the guy who could not make it to the Black Hat and gona miss the fun. I am sure there […]
Recently I received a scrap on my orkut account from unknown person, explaining the trick to Freely Recharge Mobile. And falsely claiming that the version was introduced to all orkut users as a gift from Google services! It asked me to visit a link which I did, it took me to https://meka555.blogspot.com/ [do not click […]
Microsoft is working hard to fix the issue related to CVE-2010-2568 and to release the security updates as early as possible to patch vulnerable systems. Meanwhile, Microsoft has released a Microsoft security advisory (2286198) which lists the set of workarounds. Workarounds refers to “a setting” or “configuration change” that does not correct the underlying issue […]
