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		<title><![CDATA[Spooky Halloween - scareware or crimeware?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=4782]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[With all the "spooky" cybercrime trends taking place on a monthly basis, such as the death of CAPTCHA, the suspicious idleness of the Conficker botnet, the clear presence of government-tolerated and upcoming government-sponsored botnets, the inevitable migration from using malicious infrastructure to entirely relying on legitimate one, followed by the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:47:46 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Modern banker malware undermines two-factor authentication]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=4402]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Once pitched as an additional layer of security for E-banking transactions, two-factor authentication is slowly becoming an easy to bypass authentication process, to which cybercriminals have successfully adapted throughout the last couple of years.    Modern banker malware, also known as crimeware, is now fully capable of bypassing...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:43:58 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Research: 80% of Web users running unpatched versions of Flash/Acrobat]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=4097]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[According to a research published by Trusteer earlier this month, 79.5% of the 2.5 million users of their Rapport security service run a vulnerable version of Adobe Flash, with 83.5% also running a vulnerable version of Acrobat.    The company has also criticized Adobe by insisting that their...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:41:07 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Federal forms themed blackhat SEO campaign serving scareware]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=3962]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[An ongoing blackhat SEO search engine optimization campaign is actively hijacking a variety of U.S Federal Forms keywords in an attempt to serve the Personal Antivirus (Trojan.Win32.FakeXPA) scareware.    Due to the automated and sophisticated PageRank boosting tools cybercriminals use in these campaigns, the hijacked keywords are always...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:06:15 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Security Threat Report: July 2009 Update - A Look at the Challenges Ahead]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1174477]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, most companies have guarded their email gateways and broadened their defenses against email-borne malware and malicious spam. Consequently, cybercriminals are developing techniques to infect machines behind-the-scenes by embedding malicious code on innocent websites and luring victims to them. 2009 has proven attacks are continuing to broaden. While the number...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Cybercriminals hijack Twitter trending topics to serve malware]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cybercriminals hijack Twitter trending topics to serve malwareinadequate response by Sers Holding CompanyI would have preferred that they say, "We goofed up. Sorry. We've fired the person who made this decision" instead of "Sorry that we didn't tell you we were going to record every single move on your computer...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 07:48:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Microsoft study debunks profitability of the underground economy]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=3522]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Cybercrime, what cybercrime and millions of dollars in profits?!    A newly released paper presented by Cormac Herley and Dinei Florencio at this year'sÂ  Workshop on the Economics of Information Security 2009 entitled "Nobody Sells Gold for the Price of Silver: Dishonesty, Uncertainty and the Underground Economy" debunks...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:44:07 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Web's most dangerous keywords to search for]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=3457]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Which is the most dangerous keyword to search for using public search engines these days? It's "screensavers" with a maximum risk of 59.1 percent, according to McAfee's recently released report "The Web's Most Dangerous Search Terms".    Upon searching for 2,658 unique popular keywords and phrases across 413,368...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 16:50:42 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Inside the botnets that never make the news - a gallery]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=3432]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[If you ever wanted to take an inside view of targeted-botnets primarily run by novice cybercriminals sometimes utilizing outdated, but very effective methods - this ZDNet photo gallery is for you.    It offers an inside view of those "beneath the radar" botnets that never make the news....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 13:30:33 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Cybercriminals promoting malware-friendly search engines]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=3333]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The cybercriminals behind the ongoing blackhat search engine optimization attacks hijacking swine flu related queries in order to serve scareware, have re-introduced an old social engineering tactic - the use of fake and malware friendly search engines.    Researchers from PandaLabs have recently uncovered a similar malicious search...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 08:14:22 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Swine flu email scams circulating]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=3233]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Opportunistic scammers and spammers are actively exploiting the swine flu buzz across the web by spamvertising links to pharmaceutical scams, and bogus 'Swine Flu Survival Guides' using search engine optimization of typosquatted domains related to the outbreak.    The event-based social engineering campaign is similar to the recent...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 07:47:32 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[New ransomware locks PCs, demands premium SMS for removal]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=3197]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE: Another variant has been detected.    Following the recently uncovered hybrid scareware with elements of ransomware, and last year's GPcode ransomware attacks, cybercriminals have once again demonstrated their interest in the concept of ransomware.    PandaLabs is reporting on a newly discovered ransomware variant which...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:30:15 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Waledac botnet spamming fake SMS spying tool]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=3162]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Waledac is once again using its well proven social engineering tactics by introducing a "fake SMS spying tool" (free.exe; smstrap.exe; install.exe; setup.exe etc.) and Online Casinos theme, in an attempt to further expand the botnet.    No client-side vulnerabilities are used for the time being, instead the cybercriminals...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 06:42:34 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[USAID.gov compromised, malware and exploits served]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2817]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The Azerbaijan section at the United States Agency for International Development (azerbaijan.usaid.gov) has been compromised and is embedded with malware and exploits serving scripts approximately around the 1st of March. The malicious script is taking advantage of a series of redirects which are dynamically loading live exploits, or rogue security...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 08:25:53 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Cybercriminals release Christmas themed web malware exploitation kit]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-12691-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=54772&messageID=1035550&start=0]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Cybercriminals release Christmas themed web malware exploitation kitAre hackers just a little evil or---do they use bazookas too---RE: Cybercriminals release Christmas themed web malware exploitation kitHow about telling us WHICH 6 of the 37 AVs could identify this junk? And the "product marketing materials" indicate that they can exploit even...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:41:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Obama-mania gives cybercriminal an opening]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama-mania gives cybercriminal an openingJust dessertsWe've pulled all our savings out of the stock market in anticipation of the Messiah's tax hikes.  This guy is a gifted speaker and a disaster waiting to happen.  People lapping up every word are zombies who need to be shocked into reality;...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 09:34:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Cybercriminals syndicating Google Trends keywords to serve malware]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-12691-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=52655&messageID=992470&start=0]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Cybercriminals syndicating Google Trends keywords to serve malwareLarge networks are increasingly...being used to comprimise the Internet. These commercial networks are too large to be managed by hands-on real people and are being managed by technology. Things are only going to get worse. If these networks can't be properly managed they...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 04:23:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Phishers increasingly scamming other phishers]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1641]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[A new study conducted by Marco Cova, Christopher Kruegel, and Giovanni Vigna, provides factual evidence of a well known practice by experienced phishers, namely, backdooring phishing pages that they would later on distribute for free across the IT underground, in order to build a covert network where other phishers would...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:03:29 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[32% of North American SMBs have been hit by cybercrime numerous times]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=14717]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[32% of small and medium businesses in the United States and Canada have been attacked more than four times by cybercriminals in the last three years, MCAfee said. 26% of those attacked took at least a week to recover, a devastating length of time to be offline for small businesses...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 10:33:57 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[10 technologies that cybercriminals love to exploit]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=375514]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Cybercriminals can go after your users in any number of ways, and the results can be devastating. Share this list with them to help them stay on their toes in this increasingly risky online world.This download is also available as an entry in our 10 Things blog. ]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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