Malware Authors Relying on Poor User Updating Practices
When infecting PCs, online criminals are increasingly benefiting from uninstalled updates for browsers and their components. In this regard, research carried out by G Data SecurityLabs indicates that unclosed security holes in browser plug-ins are very much in fashion with bands of cyber criminals. This distribution concept means that current security holes are far from being the only ones exploited by the perpetrators, as evidenced in the current malware analysis for the month of May 2011. In the previous month...
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