Beware of pickpockets and malware-laced banner ads
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MySpace, Excite and Blick serving them now If you haven't patched that media player or web browser in a while, now might be a good time. MySpace, Excite and Blick have been caught serving banner ads that attempt to install malware on machines running unpatched software.â¦
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Hackers twist ad network into Trojan network Hackers have rooted into a server owned by internet advertising network 24/7 Real Media and used it to serve malware-laced banner ads that tried to circumvent security mechanisms on end users' machines, Symantec researchers said. The malware exploited a previously unknown vulnerability in Real Player that was patched on Friday.â¦
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Some digital picture frames and other devices sold over the holidays may include malicious software.
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Hackers may be using banner ad servers to multiply the impact of the Internet Explorer virus, security experts warn.
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Millions of computer users are at risk of attack because flaws in the way Windows handles some images.
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Trojan horse that exploits flaw in how Windows handles JPEG images may be low risk, but it's a bad omen.
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Malware arrives in the form of a game, disables antivirus protection.
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InfoWorld - Some Macintosh users have encountered a security program whose function and Web site have the tell-tale signs of a scam.
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Handling of images could allow an attacker to take over your PC.
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At least it's not stealthy, one supposes: A newly reported Trojan not only tries to delete all the user's files, but plays a highly annoying audio clip as it does so.
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Workshop Windows virus cleanup primer
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New Web ads respond to your activities--and this has privacy advocates worried.
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Malicious programs that can delete address books. Junk messages that flood a cell phone&#39;s inbox. Stealthy code that uses Bluetooth wireless technology to sneak onto handsets.
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STOCKHOLM -- Malicious programs that can delete address books. Junk messages that flood a cellphone's inbox. Stealthy code that uses Bluetooth wireless technology to sneak onto handsets.
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Web site visitors who clicked on banner ads on a number of popular European Web sites this weekend could have infected their computers with variants of the Bofra worm, experts warn.
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New versions of old scams debut today There's Valentine's Day worms and phishing spam doing the rounds, and they're going to give you an infection you'd rather not have.â¦
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A security company has identified a Trojan horse program that replaces Google text advertisements on Web pages with ads from another source, depriving Google of revenue and potentially causing problems for end users.Google may be powerless to stop the trick since it involves the modification of an internal PC file, called the hosts file, that is used to match domain names of Web sites with IP (Internet protocol) addresses, said Romanian security company BitDefender.When a person visits a Web site, the browser checks the hosts file to see if it has an IP address for a particular domain name. If the hosts file is corrupted or hijacked, the browser can be directed to fetch a different Web page than the one the user intended to.Modifying the hosts file can be done for legitimate reasons. For example, PC users can change the hosts to block banner ads served from known ad networks. When a Web page tries to contact an ad server, the request is diverted by the hosts file and no ad appears.BitDefender said in an advisory this particular malware directs a browser to download advertisements from a different server than Google&#39;s ad server.BitDefender named the malware Trojan.Qhost.WU and said it is not spreading fast and poses a &quot;medium&quot; risk of damage. It did not say how the Trojan is being circulated, and company representatives did not return a call for comment.Besides costing Google ad revenue, there is a danger that those replacement advertisements could contain links to sites with malicious software, BitDefender said. Web site owners who buy ads through Google, as well as Google itself, can lose out on both Web traffic and revenue if people are diverted from its ads.There is not much that Google can do for those who download the malware. However, security products such as BitDefender&#39;s can detect and remove it.Without commenting on the Trojan specifically, Google said it removes Web sites from its search index that contain malware.&quot;We have canceled customer accounts that display ads re-directing users to malicious sites or that advertise a product violating our software principles,&quot; the company said in a statement.