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A site that prompts you to hit the F1 key may be attempting to attack your computer.

Websense® Security Labs™ ThreatSeeker™ Network has discovered that the BBS of Sougou has been compromised. The Sougou BBS home page and other pages on the site have been injected with a malicious script. The script creates an IFrame that redirects users to an exploit site: a 5-day old domain at [snip]ow.info. The latter performs some checks before delivering the exploits, in order to subvert any analysis attempts. At the time of writing this alert, the BBS of Sougou is still injected with the malicious script, but the exploit site is down. This could change at any moment. This is the ...

Over 13% of all searches on Google looking for popular and trending topics will lead to malicious links and searching for the latest news on the earthquake in Chile and the tsunami hitting Hawaii are no exception. Both are now used to lure people into downloading fake antivirus products. Usually the links in the search results look like ordinary links pointing to regular web pages. This time the bad guys have changed tactics to make their search results look even more convincing, by tricking Google into thinking it's a PDF file. As you can see above Google tells you the ...

An invitation to find out about better sex is spreading virally around Twitter – but only leads to identity theft and malware updated

Cyber attacks are costing businesses £1.2 million each according to a new survey by security firm Symantec.

Stop and think about your bank for a minute. Do they pile the money up in the middle of the lobby? Why not?–There are locks on the doors.

Websense Security Labs™ ThreatSeeker™ Network has detected that the black hat Search Engine Optimization SEO techniques are abusing the name of an Olympic figure skater who is very popular in recent news. Joannie Rochette is a Canadian figure skater and the 2009 world silver medallist. In the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, despite the loss of her mother just 48 hours before her competition, she delivered a sensational performance and qualified to compete for gold. The bad guys still took advantage of this tragic incident and used it in the infamous Black SEO poisoning attacks. Searching for Joannie Rochette in ...

...it stares them down until they infect themselves