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Legitimate Screensavers Used in Malware Attacks

Malware writers turn to all kinds of techniques in order to trick people, infect their computers and reach their goal, no matter if we're talking about stealing some data or just luring them on malicious websites. As part of their latest attempt, attackers who built rogue security applications even implemented legitimate software supposed to make the data more credible. For instance, Paolo Palumbo of McAfee writes about a malware sample which came with a legitimate screensaver informing him... Read »
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