Real Men Don’t Do Safe Hex Urban Schrott, IT Security & Cybercrime Analyst, ESET Ireland Expressions based on puns about practicing Safe Hex – always use protection! – seems to have lost their popularity nowadays, even though security hygiene remains as important as sexual hygiene (though in very different contexts). When an antivirus message pops … More Monthly Threat Report: July 2011
Social networks are not only a place for fun, chat and connecting with your friends, they are also a place where cyber-crime flourishes. Just a short time ago a new dangerous variant of a trojan detected by ESET as Win32/Delf.QCZ started to spread via Facebook. The malware has the capability to deactivate AV protection that … More ESET Warns Against Facebook-spread Trojan and Offers Security Tips
Facebook privacy: security concerns If Facebook was a country, it would be the third largest one in the world (http://blog.eset.com/2011/05/04/osama-bin-laden-is-alive-and-well-on-facebook). All those Facebook users are exposed to the many social networking risks and nuisances that are regularly reported nowadays. Paul Laudanski’s wrote a comprehensive blog article which is a timely and essential guide to a … More Monthly Threat Report: May 2011
Feature Article: 419s Still a la Mode Urban Schrott, IT Security & Cybercrime Analyst, ESET Ireland After being around for years (hundreds of years, if you trace it back through the ancient Spanish Prisoner scam), and with relatively few different twists to the main plot, I’d imagine by now that pretty much everyone would recognize … More Monthly Threat Report: April 2011
Malware authors have grown very attached to the idea of subverting legitimate business models for illegal purposes. Our Russian colleagues Aleksandr Matrosov and Eugene Rodionov described how the DogmaMillions cybercrime group distributed a rootkit using a pay per install scheme. DogmaMillions group seems to have been somewhat uncomfortable with the copious attention it received last … More CyberThreats Daily: A look at the inner workings of cybercrime
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