"A currently ongoing scareware campaign is using celebrity-themed blackhat SEO tactics in order to hijack legitimate traffic by abusing the popular DocStoc and Scribd document-sharing services. What's the single most interesting thing about this campaign anyway? It's fact that one of the domains parked on the same IP that the rest of the malware and exploit serving ones are -- they naturally multi-tasking and engage in drive-by attacks -- newsoff .net has been registered with the same email pvcprotect@gmail.com as the original gumblar .cn domain."
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Next week will be a big patch week - Adobe is also releasing patches "Adobe is planning to release an update for Adobe Flash Player 10.0.32.18 and earlier versions, and an update to Adobe AIR 1.5.2 and earlier versions, to resolve critical security issues, (Thu, Dec 3rd) - http://isc.sans.org/diary...
Apple released some Java updates today APPLE-SA-2009-12-03-1 & 2 (for 10.5 and 10.6). Fixes a number of security issues so updating is a good idea., (Thu, Dec 3rd) - http://isc.sans.org/diary...
"The Zeus botnet is hitting inboxes worldwide this week. Capitalizing on the public concern over the flu and the recent swine flu outbreak, a spate of malicious emails have been distributed with subject lines such as "Governmental registration program on the H1N1 virus"."
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