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Mobile Threat Update: Week 14
Is “Private number” really private? Apparently not… This week, the AVG Mobilation™ research team found a new PUP (Potential Unwanted Program) named ‘441 Israel’ targeting Israeli users. After our Security research team reported this to Google, it suspended the developer and removed the application. The finding and analysis was done with the help of an [...]
Adobe Reader CVE-2011-2462 Exploit analysis
The exploit Used environment: Windows XP SP3 with Adobe Acrobat 9.4.6 This U3D memory corruption vulnerability (CVE-2011-2462) could cause an application crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. After the malicious PDF file is opened, new process pretty.exe (this file is changed all the times.) is created. We can see this [...]
AVG Codeword: Vulnerability Patching
We’ve looked at the importance of “Patch Updates” recently and focused on Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday, when Microsoftprovides users with often very essential updates to its Windows operating systems. When serious flaws or security loopholes open up, they need to be patched with remedial software code and the update process for most users is quite automated [...]
AVG Web Threat weekly update: US.gov site serving rogues, Flash updates and exploits
AVG analysts spotted a script-injection hack on web site of the District of Columbia, USA. The malicious change to the Web page takes visitors to a variety of malicious downloads. The USA capital Washington is in the District of Columbia. The intruders put script on the page that lists the D.C. “Directory of Agencies and [...]
Mobile Threat Update: Be careful not to get a bite…
This week, the AVG Mobilation™ research team found new malware named ‘Crazy vampire’ in China. The application is malicious modified version of a calendar application in which the developer added malicious code, changed the name, icon, sign, and UI. The aim of the malware is to target Chinese users and get them to upgrade to [...]
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AVG Feedback Update: Week 11
1. AVG LinkScanner incompatible with Mozilla Firefox 11 A few AVG Forums visitors noticed that the AVG Safe Search add-on is not compatible with the most recent Mozilla Firefox 11 version. We would like to inform you that the Mozilla Firefox 11 support will be available with the next program update. Please accept our apology [...]
AVG Feedback Update: Week 11
1. AVG LinkScanner incompatible with Mozilla Firefox 11 A few AVG Forums visitors noticed that the AVG Safe Search add-on is not compatible with the most recent Mozilla Firefox 11 version. We would like to inform you that the Mozilla Firefox 11 support will be available with the next program update. Please accept our apology [...]
Tax and Finance: E-business finance dangers
E-business finance dangers, the electronic blank check and other stories Electronic business and financial electronic transactions have become the norm in many parts of the western world today. In the UK for example, the HM Revenue and Customs service has recently issued an edict stating that from 1 April 2012 “virtually all” VAT customers [...]