New VirusesItaly: Political Controversy SpamAs the controversy about Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi rises, spammers take advantage of the news to lure their victims to their malicious plots.
The spammed mail claims to come from YouTube, but checking the domain of the sender reveals that it actually came from youtorube.com, and not from the real youtube.com.
Figure 1. Notice the [...]
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Blackhat SEO Quick to Abuse Farrah Fawcett DeathCybercriminals take the low road once again as they pepper the Internet with blackhat SEO links that are likely to attract users searching for news about the death of Charlie’s Angels star Farrah Fawcett, who, at age 62, finally ended a long struggle with cancer.
Figure 1. Blackhat SEO links for Farrah Fawcett searches sets in
Hosted [...]
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Google Cash Club Makes Headlines in Phishing AttackWe have recently discovered a version, of online fraud that takes the guise of a legitimate-lookng news website. At first glance, the content of the purported news page appears real but after conducting further analysis, one will realize that the news page is actually a spammy site.
What’s supposed to be a news article is actually [...]
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"Critical Update" Leads to Critical Info TheftMicrosoft Corporation regularly issues updates to fix bugs and security vulnerabilities in its software products. These updates are meant to protect its users from different attacks that depend mainly on exploiting these documented bugs.
Close to the weekend, we identified spam (click Figure 1 thumbnail for larger view) claiming to be a Microsoft Outlook and Outlook [...]
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Tattletale Spam Reveals Malicious File Instead of GossipCybercriminals pose as tattletales about to reveal something scandalous in a malicious spam run we’ve encountered recently.
Cybercriminals crafted the spam messages to look similar to an email from YouTube. It arrives with a link which is supposedly a video posted on the said video-sharing website.
The message is written in Portuguese and roughly translates to the [...]
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Australia: Taxpayers Targeted by Phishing AttackThe Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is calling on people to start thinking about lodging their 2008 tax returns. With this significant event on the rise, spammers are using this as bait to promote phishing mails.
The email contains a letter stating that it was from ATO. It informs the receiver that he or she is eligible [...]
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Deceitful Advertisement thru Dating SpamToday we have noticed an increase in the amount of dating spam mails containing phrases such as:
I’m emailing you because I like you
wanted to let you know about my profile
you have been invited to join
The link in the spam points to an adult-dating web page that contains pictures of a woman, as well as [...]
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Air France Flight 447 Spam Arrives with PowerPoint ExploitAfter a blackhat SEO attack, cybercriminals are again using the terrifying catastrophe of Air France Flight 447 or about China-made C919 Jumbo Jets competing with Airbus and Boeing for malicious intent. This time, spam messages are sent with an attached PowerPoint presentation, which is specially crafted to exploit a vulnerability in Microsoft Powerpoint.
The spammed [...]
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Wholesale Redirects to Malware Averted, For NowURL redirection services like TinyURL have grown from almost nothing in recent years, due entirely to the success of Twitter and its 140-character limit. For most users, they represent a welcome convenience as they make their tweets, status messages, and other such space-limited posts throughout the day.
Unfortunately, cybercriminals have used such services as part of [...]
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Iran: Street Protests Paralleled by DDoS AttacksThe violent protests by activists unhappy with the results of the recently concluded Iran presidential elections are being paralleled by DDoS attacks organized by hacktivists to bring down Iran government websites.
Although it hasn’t been confirmed if the DDoS attacks were indeed successful, several Iranian government websites have been reported inaccessible. Noah Shachtman from Wired expressed [...]
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Not One but Two New OS X MalwareTwo new malware for Mac OS X were recently discovered. Even though there are indeed relatively fewer Mac malware compared with Windows, many Mac users who still believe they are somehow magically immune from attacks may run the risk of encountering any of these two.
One of the newest Mac OS X malware, a Trojan detected [...]
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Spammers Celebrate with Father’s Day EarlyFather’s Day is a tradition meant for us to show our appreciation for fathers. With the fast changing technology however, people, spammers especially, follow the trend and celebrate the occasion in their own way.
Clicking the link in the spam message displays a website that seems to be for the mattress vendor, Tempur-Pedic. It invites users [...]
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Another Google Search Feature AbusedA recent set of spam emails was seen abusing yet another Google search feature:
The URL in the spam email above uses the search feature q=site: in order to direct the user clicking on the link to a Google results page returning the spam site:
What works in the spammers advantage is Google displays the first few [...]
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Scammers Ride on H1N1 Global PandemicThe World Health Organization (WHO) raised the H1N1 global pandemic alert level to phase 6 on June 11. More than 70 countries have now reported cases of human infection. Many of the cases reportedly had links to travel or were localized outbreaks. The WHO designation of a phase 6 pandemic alert reflects the fact that [...]
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The Good and the Bad of Being A New Spam BotIt seems like a new spam bot is currently being developed. Few days ago, a fellow researcher posted a pretty good analysis of a relatively simple spam bot, which Trend Micro detects as TROJ_PROXY.AIF.
This spam bot is quite straightforward. On execution, the Trojan (TROJ_PROXY.AIF) issues a DNS query to a single domain in order [...]
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Botnet Research on WALEDAC and PUSHDOTrendLabs researchers have recently published their research on two of the most prevalent botnets in the threat landscape to date:
Infiltrating WALEDAC Botnet’s Covert Operations
Spam is not a mere inbox annoyance anymore but is the first step toward executing more dangerous kinds of system infiltration. Malware are no longer discrete executables but a motley group of [...]
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Stolen FTP Credentials Key to Gumblar AttackAnalysts of the recent Gumblar attack that compromised thousands of legitimate websites stated that the unauthorized modifications in the websites were possibly executed not only through SQL injection. The compromise was also reportedly done through accessing web server files through stolen FTP credentials gathered by one of the final malware payloads of the same attack.
The [...]
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June 2009 Microsoft and Adobe Security UpdatesMicrosoft released ten security advisories yesterday to address at least 31 vulnerability issues in its various Windows operating system (OS) versions and other software. This broke the company’s December 2008 record of releasing patches for 28 vulnerabilities. Six of the said vulnerabilities were categorized as critical, three were important, and one was moderate. This means [...]
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Beware of Repackaged HijackThis DownloadsHijackThis™ is one of the well-known free utilities of Trend Micro that quickly scans a user’s Windows computer to find settings that may have been changed by spyware, malware, or other unwanted programs. By itself, it does not determine what is good or bad but it lists registry keys and files system of the scanned [...]
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Reconfigure Your Outlook with MalwareA few days ago, we reported about a phishing email that is supposedly a Microsoft Outlook notification, telling users to reconfigure their program by clicking on the link provided. Instead of an update, however, the user is redirected to a phishing Web site, where s/he is asked for his/her account information, including incoming and outgoing [...]
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