We have a beta of a new product available for download on our beta pages .

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F-Secure PC Booster beta

Jarno Niemelä from our lab did a study on malicious Windows binaries that have been signed ( with Microsoft Authenticode ).

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It’s Signed, therefore it’s Clean, right?

We have received reports of a malicious Windows Mobile game that creates significant phone bills to affected users. The game in question is called 3D Anti-terrorist action , and it’s manufactured by Beijing Huike Technology in China. The game itself is a 3D first-person shooter

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Trojanised mobile phone game makes expensive phone calls

Another day, another news, and well… another SEO Poisoning stint. Using PDF files in SEO poisoning is a bit recent, but not exactly fresh news.

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SEO Poisoning Sites Use Flash for Redirection

The World of Warcraft online game has over 10 million players around the world. World of Warcraft also has hundreds of phishing websites targeting it, trying to steal end-user login credentials. Like these: The domain names for most of these phishing sites are easy to spot (wor1dcfwarcraft.com?

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worldrofwarcraft.com

We just blogged about a highly targeted attack against military contractors. Now we saw one against the intelligence sector.

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Intelligence sector hit by a targeted attack

A day after the disaster that struck the Caribbean nation of Haiti, Rogue perpetrators have once again been busy with their SEO poisoning schemes. Searching for terms related to this earthquake leads to a website that installs a Rogue into the system. It happens when an unsuspecting user searches for Haiti Earthquake details.

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Haiti Earthquake: Another Rogue Rides the News

One of our readers recently sent us a wallpaper he created, using our new style and logo: It was a nice gesture - thanks George J.! His work looks a bit like a re-imagined version of our old WorldMap wallpaper: We’ve had a few F-Secure wallpapers over the years, most of them pretty simple and unadorned - nothing fancy. Still, a couple readers have asked after one of our older wallpapers: So here it is in 1400×1050 . A quick look around the Response Lab shows that, funnily enough, quite a few of us are still using our even older, early 90s-style wallpaper: Though a few of the more up-to-date folks are using the new branding as their desktop background: Simple and clean, just the way we like it

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Wallpapers - Retrospective

Once again, we’d like to wish our readers Merry Christmas with a reference to the 1986 CHRISTMA EXEC worm Here’s a link to January 1987 Risks Digest , discussing the worm. And here’s a link to the original source code for this worm.

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Merry CHRISTMA EXEC

Steam from Valve is the largest digital distribution network in the world, with over 20 million active users.

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Steam Phishing