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Jan 10, 2014

2 min read

Emsisoft Fraud Alert: LinkedIn Data Breached by Fake Accounts

This Wednesday, reports emerged revealing that hackers have been scraping LinkedIn.com for profile data since May 2013. As yet, who these hackers are remains a mystery, but LinkedIn has already made plans to sue them for everything they may or may not be worth.

Jan 5, 2014

2 min read

Emsisoft Malware Warning: Yahoo “Malvertisements” Infect 1000s of Users

On January 3rd, independent cyber security company, Fox-IT, released a report revealing that someone had infected Yahoo's advertising server with malware. Yet to be identified, the attacker loaded the server -- which distributes advertisements to hundreds of thousands Yahoo users worldwide -- with a slew of "malvertisements" designed to infect computers after a single click.

Jan 4, 2014

2 min read

Emsisoft Leads the Charge Against WoW Malware Engineering

As of January 2nd, administrators on WoW’s support forum, Battle.net, announced that a dangerous Trojan targeting WoW players is circulating the web. Known as Disker or Disker64, the Trojan is spreading by posing as a World of Warcraft add-on from the game’s add-on manager, Curse Client.

Dec 26, 2013

1 min read

Windows Premium Shield Detected

Hard at work even over the holiday, Emsisoft's Malware Research team has just detected a new variant within the GuardSoftware Protector Rogue re-emergence known as Windows Premium Shield.

Dec 26, 2013

3 min read

2013: The Year We Were “Snowden”

This Christmas 2013, Snowden decided to open his mouth again and grace the world with an Alternative Christmas Message, which aired on Great Britain's Channel 4 and has been uploaded to the web.

Dec 19, 2013

3 min read

Brick and Mortar Identity Theft Targets 40 million Accounts

Target Corporation announces a major security breach that could affect millions of consumers. Emsisoft presents the facts and draws out the implications.

Dec 17, 2013

3 min read

Copycat Ransomware “Locker” Emerges

Probably the hottest new development in malware this year has been the widespread emergence of ransomware. As the name implies, ransomware is a form of malware that takes your computer hostage and demands you pay a ransom before it sets the computer free. In late 2013, the ransomware CryptoLocker emerged as a major new threat […]

Dec 16, 2013

1 min read

Avoiding Holiday Identity Theft This Season

Shopping online for all of your holiday gifting is an act of pure convenience – for both shoppers and identity thieves. Combined with powerful antivirus software, your best defense is common sense and a bit of discretion. There are now millions of places to shop online, which means millions of places to enter your sensitive […]

Dec 12, 2013

2 min read

Is the NSA Spying on Gamers?

Recent news about the NSA and its British counterpart the GCHQ takes the concept of spyware to a whole new level. Recent reports from no less than The New York Times have suggested that these intelligence agencies have made efforts to monitor virtual gaming worlds, such as World of Warcraft, Second Life, and Halo. According […]

Dec 10, 2013

6 min read

Viruses that went viral: Conficker worm

Since the dawn of personalized computing there have been literally millions of viruses, and yet only a select few have truly “gone viral.” In recent years, one of the most infectious among these has been the Conficker worm, which at its peak in 2008 managed to infect 7 million computers worldwide. Among the infected were […]

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Malware Lab

Emsisoft Fraud Alert: LinkedIn Data Breached by Fake Accounts

Emsisoft Malware Warning: Yahoo “Malvertisements” Infect 1000s of Users

Emsisoft Leads the Charge Against WoW Malware Engineering

Windows Premium Shield Detected

2013: The Year We Were “Snowden”

Brick and Mortar Identity Theft Targets 40 million Accounts

Copycat Ransomware “Locker” Emerges

Avoiding Holiday Identity Theft This Season

Is the NSA Spying on Gamers?

Viruses that went viral: Conficker worm

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