December 13, 2011 - Last week, our friends at ThreatPost posted about the ever-growing infection of websites hosting Black Hole Exploit Kits. A Black Hole exploit takes advantage of unpatched Windows operating systems. It also targets other software, such as Java and Adobe (continue reading...) Read more
December 9, 2011 - Another round of bad ads in Bing and Yahoo search are making an unwelcome return. Bing has fake Firefox adverts: (continue reading...) Read more
December 7, 2011 - Our monthly Top Ten threat detection report for the month of November is now available to take a look at, along with information on some of the scams we've seen these past few weeks including emails tempting users with (continue reading...) Read more
December 7, 2011 - If you see an email arrive in your mailbox with the above title, feel free to discard it - nothing good will come of it, unless your idea of "good" is "filling in all of your personal information into a (continue reading...) Read more
December 5, 2011 - Here's a rather amateur phish targeting Steam users, located at steambirthday(dot)com. No birthday prizes for guessing what this scam is all about: (continue reading...) Read more
November 29, 2011 - Our friends at CSIS, a Danish security company, has spotted a worm spreading within the Facebook platform. In a recent news article penned by Peter Kruse, the worm is said to be "a classic" one in terms of how it (continue reading...) Read more
November 29, 2011 - Our friends at CSIS, a Danish security company, has spotted a worm spreading within the Facebook platform. In a recent news article penned by Peter Kruse, the worm is said (continue reading...) Read more
November 28, 2011 - Patrick, our resident rogue AV expert from the AV Labs, have his eyes set on one particular family—FakeScanti. This rogue family first appeared in the first quarter of 2010, and it has been within the radar ever since.Enter (continue reading...) Read more
November 28, 2011 - Patrick, our resident rogue AV expert from the AV Labs, have his eyes set on one particular family—FakeScanti. This rogue family first appeared in the first quarter of 2010, and it has been within the radar ever since. Enter AV (continue reading...) Read more
November 28, 2011 - A company who make installers distributing the software of third parties recently contacted us to query a detection. As it turns out, their installer was not the problem - they were partnering with a company whose toolbar continues to have (continue reading...) Read more
November 28, 2011 - A company who make installers distributing the software of third parties recently contacted us to query a detection. As it turns out, their installer was not the problem – they were partnering with a company whose toolbar continues to have (continue reading...) Read more
November 24, 2011 - We've seen it here first: YapBrowser has risen after being declared dead five years ago—and this discovery is by Chris Boyd himself just a day before he presented at VB 2011 to discuss about rogue browsers, of which YapBrowser is. (continue reading...) Read more
November 24, 2011 - We’ve seen it here first: YapBrowser has risen after being declared dead five years ago—and this discovery is by Chris Boyd himself just a day before he presented at VB 2011 to discuss about rogue browsers, of which YapBrowser is. (continue reading...) Read more
November 23, 2011 - Over the previous few days, our research team here at GFI has noticed an uptick in bank phishes winding up in a few of our spam traps. This particular scam is unique in that it comes with an html file (continue reading...) Read more
November 23, 2011 - Over the previous few days, our research team here at GFI has noticed an uptick in bank phishes winding up in a few of our spam traps. This particular scam is unique in that it comes with an html file (continue reading...) Read more
November 22, 2011 - Here at GFI, we’re dedicated to providing quality antivirus software at exceptional values, and this Black Friday is no exception. Our (continue reading...) Read more
November 22, 2011 - Here at GFI, we’re dedicated to providing quality antivirus software at exceptional values, and this Black Friday (continue reading...) Read more
November 22, 2011 - Way back in 2009, Sophos covered a bit of viral "fun" on Twitter where users of that service revealed their "porn star name" - comprised of your "first pet" and your "first street".Well, look what's back (continue reading...) Read more
November 22, 2011 - Way back in 2009, Sophos covered a bit of viral “fun” on Twitter where users of that service revealed their “porn star name” – comprised of your “first pet” and your “first street“. Well, look what’s back in marginally (continue reading...) Read more
November 17, 2011 - Here's a curious instance of a URL similar to "Tumblr(dot)com that seems to have been around for a while, capitalising on any typo happy Tumblr user eager to post up an image.Skyrim - yes, this thing - (continue reading...) Read more