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Here is a rather serious bug reported by PandaLabs this week regarding the Sinowal.WHZ Trojan. This Trojan is distributed through emails that say they are from UPS. Users are informed via email that the service was unable to deliver the packet sent to a recipient on a specific date. Additionally, users are prompted into opening [...]

Another report from PandaLabs this week describes another annoying fake antivirus adware called AntivirusDoktor. This annoying piece of software is designed to make you believe your computer is infected by performing a false scan of your computer system if you allowed it infect you. After the fake scan, it shows a screen as if the [...]

This blog post will be of particular interest to those of us who use Twitter. We received a report from PandaLabs regarding a new attack on Twitter users. Cyber-criminals have created hundreds of Twitter accounts and published thousands of comments in them under the topic “PhishTube Broadcast”, in relation to the US rock band Phish. [...]

Another worm reported from PandaLabs uses everyone’s familiarity with Facebook to fool you into opening it so that it can install itself on your computer.
The MSNWorm.GI worm is designed to spread through MSN Messenger. To do so, it sends an instant message to the infected user’s contacts, tempting them to view a photo.
The [...]