Holly crap on a cracker! I did not think this would happen any time soon. According to FireEye's senior scientist Atif Mushtaq about 50% of the worlds spam is gone. This week the Grum botnet was shut down. The criminals who ran the network of zombie computers had a 3 year run and made a last … [Read more...]
Internet Doomsday arives midnight on Monday July 9th 2012
By on July 8, 2012 2 Comments
Of all the hype I see around news stories this has to be one of the biggest no story issues I've heard in a while. In a nutshell, years ago people got infected with a virus that changed their DNS settings. It basically created a proxy server for all internet traffic to go through. On Monday at … [Read more...]
60 banks Hacked!
By on June 27, 2012 Leave a Comment
Developing story: A new malware attack on an estimated 60+ banks is ongoing. At the time of this writing over 60 million euros have been confirmed stolen with an estimated 1.6 billion euros possibly stolen. What is Happening? It seems from early reports that some bank servers have been … [Read more...]
Iran Finds New Stuxnet Strain Dubbed Flame
By on May 28, 2012 2 Comments
According to the Iranian Computer Emergency Response Team (MAHER) a new cyber cyberespionage threat has surfaced that seems to be related to Stuxnet. This new malware strain appears to be more complex and much larger in file size then Stuxnet according to malware experts at Kaspersky Labs. … [Read more...]
Osama Bin Laden Death Video Hoax
By on May 2, 2011 Leave a Comment
It seems there are mutiple websites and placed on Facebook claiming to have showing the Death / shooting of Bin Laden. NO Osama Bin Laden Death Video has been released and this is a scam. If you visit a site that says it has this video, you will be asked to install a video codec or a … [Read more...]
Military Dating Fraud
By on July 28, 2010 Leave a Comment
I have researched many scams before online but today I found out about a new low. Fraudsters are stealing military photos and creating false profiles on dating sites in an effort to trick the person looking for a relationship to send them money. While the tactic is nothing new it … [Read more...]
Rogue Internet Firm Shut Down
By on May 24, 2010 Leave a Comment
The US Federal Trade Commission said Belize-based 3FN aided gangs that ran botnets, carried out phishing attacks and traded in images of child abuse. The operators of 3FN must also pay back $1.08m (£750,000 ) this is the amount they are suposed to of made. While I'm alwasy happy to hear … [Read more...]
About Fake Security and Antiviurs Products
By on August 24, 2009 Leave a Comment
Fake Security and Antiviurs Products have been around a very long time. These types of programs go by hundreds of different names and new ones are created every day. Often times experts will refer to this type of virus as Scareware, rouge clients, misleading clients and fake clients. The goal of a … [Read more...]
Report finds fake antivirus on the rise
By on August 6, 2009 Leave a Comment
Fake antivirus on the rise according to a Cnet article that came out a few days back. Of course we at removevirus.org and the rest of the security industry could already tell this was happening. Malware posing as antivirus software is spreading fast with tens of millions of computers infected … [Read more...]
Kaspersky vs Zango
By on July 5, 2009 Leave a Comment
Zango has been trying to force Kaspersky ( A well known antivirus client ) to allow the Zango software to be installed on computers running the Kaspersky software. As of now Kaspersky auto blocks the installation of Zango and Kaspersky clasiffies Zango as malisious software program. After the … [Read more...]
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