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• Reveton impersonates FBI, claims to record users' illegal activities

  03.12.2012

  The deadly combination of the Citadel malware and the Reveton ransomware is still widely used to steal information and money from uninformed users, the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) warns.

• Go Daddy says DNS records hijacking was due to phishing

  27.11.2012

  Last week malware peddlers have managed to compromise the DNS records of Go Daddy hosted websites so that they would redirect victims to malicious sites hosting the Cool exploit kit and ultimately leading to ransomware.

• Digitally signed ransomware lurking in the wild

  23.11.2012

  Trend Micro researchers have spotted two ransomware variants bearing the same (probably stolen) digital signature in order to fool users into running the files.

• Blackhole exploits lead a black month for malware

  19.11.2012

  In October, GFI Software threat researchers uncovered a large number of Blackhole exploits disguised as Windows licenses (just prior to the release of Windows 8), Facebook account verification emails, Skype voicemail notifications, and spam messages.

• Should Windows 8 users be worried about ransomware?

  14.11.2012

  Does ransomware designed for Windows 7 and older versions of the OS work on the newly released Windows 8? Symantec researchers took it upon themselves to answer that question by testing a number of ransomware samples currently found in the wild on a in a default Windows 8 environment.

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