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CNET Networks site compromise Date:08.06.2008 Threat Type: Malicious Web Site / Malicious Code Websense® Security Labs™ ThreatSeeker™ Network has discovered that a CNET Networks site has been compromised...
Jul 29 Another Fraudulent Trend Micro Site Appears by Aivee Cortez (Anti-spam Engineer) Trend Micro senior developer TT Tsai discovered a sequel to the fake Trend Micro iClean tool . Our Web Threat Protection...
The peaceful worm…. not :( Monday July 28, 2008 at 10:28 am CST Posted by Paolo Palumbo Trackback When analyzing malware, it is not uncommon to stumble across one that wants to propagate some sort of message...
Fake Jetblue eTickets Posted by Patrik @ 21:32 GMT | Comment (1) The most common way a user gets infected these days is through drive-by downloads and while the prevalence of malicious email attachments...
Thursday, July 31, 2008 Storm Worm's Lazy Summer Campaigns The Storm Worm-ers seem to be lacking their usual creativity in respect to the usual social engineering attacks taking advantage of the momentum...
Tuesday, July 29, 2008 Over 80 percent of Storm Worm Spam Sent by Pharmaceutical Spam Kings It used to be a case where a botnet would be used for a single purpose, spamming, phishing, or malware spreading...
Invoice Spam Takes Flight Friday July 25, 2008 at 10:05 am CST Posted by Craig Schmugar Trackback Last night we blogged about fake invoice spam carrying malware . Unsurprisingly those behind the recent...
DNS cache poisoning vulnerability details confirmed Published: 2008-07-24, Last Updated: 2008-07-25 06:47:28 UTC by Kyle Haugsness (Version: 2) 0 comment(s) A couple of the handlers tuned into the Blackhat...
DNS cache poisoning attacks spotted in the wild Date:07.25.2008 Threat Type: Malicious Web Site / Malicious Code This is an update to our previous alert on the DNS cache poisoning attacks. The previously...
Jul24 Banker Summons You to Court by Carolyn Guevarra (Technical Communications) For the longest time now, Brazilian banking Web sites have been one of the favorite targets of malware criminals for stealing...
Jul24 Fake Trend Micro Virus Clean Tool Spreads Malware Dirt by JM Hipolito (Technical Communications) Trend Micro recently discovered malware posing as the Trend Micro iClean tool being sent through email...
Jul23 Malware Abuses DoubleClick’s Open Redirects by JM Hipolito (Technical Communications) The Trend Micro Advanced Threat Research has discovered a number of malicious URLs under the domain of global...
New malicious Storm Worm campaign: American currency Date:07.22.2008 Threat Type: Malicious Web Site / Malicious Code Websense® Security Labs™ ThreatSeeker™ Network has discovered a new Storm Worm campaign...
Jul22 A Worrying Trend of Compromised Web Sites by Joey Costoya (Advanced Threats Researcher) We’ve seen malicious URLs ending in r.html , main.html , news.html , and about.html being spammed over the...
A twist in fluxnet operations. Enter Hydraflux Published: 2008-07-19, Last Updated: 2008-07-19 13:53:58 UTC by William Salusky (Version: 1) 0 comment(s) digg_url = 'http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid...
Do you know cloaking? Friday July 18, 2008 at 3:17 pm CST Posted by Francois Paget Trackback Last week, a friend, working at the French CERT-IST , alerted me to some web sites that, although they have...
New YouTube Spam Dresses Malware as Porn by Jovi Umawing (Technical Communications) Florabel Baetiong of the Trend Micro Content Security (CS) team reports of a type of fake email message circulating in...
Thursday, July 17, 2008 The Unbreakable CAPTCHA In response to the continuing evidence of how spammers are efficiently breaking the CAPTCHAs of popular free email service providers in order to abuse their...
Monday, July 21, 2008 Impersonating StopBadware.org to Serve Fake Security Warnings Malware is known to have been hijacking search results, take for instance the rogue Antivirus XP 2008 as a recent example...
Friday, July 18, 2008 Money Mule Recruiters use ASProx's Fast Fluxing Services Just consider this scheme for a second. A well known money mule recruitment site Cash Transfers is maintaining a fast...
Jul18 YAMSIA (Yet Another Massive SQL Injection Attack) by Robert McArdle (Threats Analyst) Clever mnemonics aside, last week we have seen another large scale SQL injection attack (or YAMSIA, if you prefer...
Jul16 You Just Won the Beijing 2008 Olympics Lotto! by Joey Costoya (Advanced Threats Researcher) Sweeet!! I just won USD 500,000.00!! But wait! Before I could claim my prize, first I must email 6 (six...
Monday, July 14, 2008 Monetizing Compromised Web Sites Despite that pure patriotic hacktivism is still alive and kicking, compromised sites are largely getting monetized these days, starting from hosting...
Jul15 Infectious Music, Malware-Style by JM Hipolito (Technical Communications) Music is made to affect people’s lives, not their computers. A malware that infects multimedia files, modifying them to require...
img {max-width:650px;width: expression(this.width > 650 ? 650: true);border-style:none; behavior: url(../iepngfix.htc); } Jul 4 Phishers Pose Fake Apple Billing Woes by Fatima Bancod (Email Security...
Jul9 Breaking News! Iran Invaded! Well…maybe by Robert McArdle (Threats Analyst) Picture the scene, you wake up in the morning and make your way on autopilot into work at your job in Tehran, switch on...
Malicious spam with news on Osama Bin Laden Date:07.04.2008 Threat Type: Malicious Web Site / Malicious Code Websense® Security Labs™ ThreatSeeker™ Network has discovered a substantial number of spam messages...
Monday, July 07, 2008 The ICANN Responds to the DNS Hijacking, Its Blog Under Attack Last week, the ICANN has issued an official statement regarding last month's DNS hijackings of some of their domains...
Jul1 Two-Factor Authentication Debunked by TSB Phish by Fatima Bancod (Email Security Analyst) Trend Micro Content Security discovered a phishing URL that, when loaded, displays a Web page strikingly similar...
Onslaught of fake Microsoft patch spam Date:06.30.2008 Threat Type: Malicious Web Site / Malicious code Websense® Security Labs™ ThreatSeeker™ Network has discovered a substantial number of spam messages...
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