Archive for the 'fake security updates' Category
Our friends (and competitors) at Sophos blogged about a new threat that poses as a Windows Update and then infects unsuspecting users with a fake antivirus product.
The update appears to be very real and is tricking users. While my colleagues at Sophos offer excellent advice to help people protect themselves (as I believe we do … Read More…
Adobe's Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) reports that malicious emails are circulating claiming to be Adobe security updates, many of them signed by "James Kitchin" of "Adobe Risk Management", or a similar (presumably mythical) team.
Adobe says that the messages include links to download instructions for a security update that addresses "CVE-2010-0193 Denial of Service Vulnerability" … Read More…
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