Yesterday, Microsoft issued a security advisory for an unpatched and actively exploited invalid reference pointer vulnerability in the Internet Explorer 6 and 7 web browsers. In the attack we observed, the exploit code will load a trojan designed to steal personal and sensitive data. Panda customers are already protected against …
It reduces the protection level of the computer, leaving it unprotected against possible threats, displays advertising messages related to certain keywords entered in the browser and in Firefox browsers it redirects certain searches to another website. It spreads via email, P2P programs and through removable drives.
Pedro Bustamante has just published a new blog post in the Panda Research blog, about a Mariposa-like bot as special gift in a new HTC distributed by Vodafone. For the same price you can be infected with other 2 'gifts': Conficker and Lineage :( Read the full story in Panda Research ... We want to inform you of a new flood of email messages that seem to contain a postcard but are actually distributing malware. Concretely, we’ve seen several thousands in a few hours. It’s not the first time we see emails like this in circulation, as subjects like “You’ve received a postcard” ...