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Microsoft, Apple and Mozilla under spotlight

A little-known group of security researchers will kick off a month of bug disclosures today that target unpatched vulnerabilities in software from Adobe, Microsoft, Mozilla, Apple and others.

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Gang allegedly made $25,000 a month

Russian police are reportedly investigating a criminal gang that installed malicious \"ransomware\" programs on thousands of PCs and then forced victims to send SMS messages in order to unlock their PCs.

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Security researchers take on Pushdo botnet

A botnet responsible for a significant amount of spam has been crippled but may reconstitute itself in a matter of weeks, according to vendor M86 Security.

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Criminals see a chance to spread Trojans

Scammers are trying to take advantage of the fact that many users will soon have to update their version of the TweetDeck Twitter software.

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Prevx says era of x64 rootkits has begun

A new version of the malware that crippled Windows PCs last February sidesteps safeguards designed to block rootkits from hijacking machines running 64-bit editions of Windows, according to security researchers.

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