Browse by Tags

All Tags » Internet Hacks (RSS)
Reverse Vishing in China Date:09.05.2008 Threat Type: Phishing Alert Websense® Security Labs™ ThreatSeeker™ Network has discovered a developing "reverse Vishing" attack in China. The attackers...
Posted by cmosby | with no comments
The darksides domains Thursday September 4, 2008 at 1:28 pm CST Posted by Chris Barton Trackback Inspired by Igor’s post (and whilst Terry is dancing in doorways ) I’ve taken some time out from my current...
Posted by cmosby | with no comments
img {max-width:650px;width: expression(this.width > 650 ? 650: true);border-style:none; behavior: url(../iepngfix.htc); } Aug 30 ‘Treasury Optimizer’ Updates Systems With Malware by Aivee Cortez (Fraud...
Misleading Application Targets Free Online Services date 09-03-2008 09:44 AM author Umesh Wanve writes: We have seen in recent times that malicious binaries are spreading through social engineering attack...
MSNBC.com "BREAKING NEWS" Alert Update - Fake Celebrity News Date:09.03.2008 Threat Type: Malicious Web Site / Malicious Code Websense® Security Labs™ ThreatSeeker™ Network has discovered a new...
Flash Spammer date 09-03-2008 10:34 AM author Kelly Conley writes: The theme to Flash Gordon is going through my head. You can't hear it, but I can. He's the savior of the universe, king of the...
Do You Know Where Your Baby Is? date 08-29-2008 10:58 AM author Kelly Conley writes: Notice! The virus-spreading spammer doesn't have your baby but is claiming to. In recent emails observed by Symantec...
Zango And The Batman Online Videogame By Christopher Boyd on September 3, 2008 12:00 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) This is Newsarama, a site (mostly) geared around comics and other related media: Click...
Aug22 Bogus FedEx Notifications: New Malware Courier of Choice by Jake Soriano (Technical Communications) Remember the UPS spam runs that were popular last month (see previous blog posts here and here...
Aug19 Phish in the (Photo)bucket by Sarah Calaunan (Fraud Analyst) Photobucket is, by far, one of the largest photo-sharing sites in the world. It is generally used for personal photographic albums, remote...
Travel the World without Moving - Literally! date 08-19-2008 08:58 AM author Hon Lau writes: Back in the 90's, Jamiroquai had a hit album named "Travelling without Moving." The title gives...
Aug17 Picture-Perfect Phishing by Aivee Cortez (Fraud Analyst) Oi Fotos , a photo storage Web site in Brazil, has been victimized recently by a phishing-spyware combo. Figure 1: Screenshot of the legitimate...
Monday, August 18, 2008 Compromised Cpanel Accounts For Sale Is the once popular in the second quarter of 2007, embedded malware tactic on the verge of irrelevance, and if so, what has contributed to its...
Posted by cmosby | with no comments
China Netcom DNS cache poisoning Date:08.19.2008 Threat Type: Malicious Web Site / Malicious Code Websense® Security Labs™ ThreatSeeker™ Network has detected that the DNS cache on the default DNS server...
Posted by cmosby | with no comments
More Than a Toolbar Tuesday August 19, 2008 at 10:50 am CST Posted by Di Tian Trackback We received a sample recently from a customer. Its file name, ToolbarSetup.exe, implies it may be toolbar installer...
Posted by cmosby | with no comments
Aug 16 Spammers Masquerade as Internet ‘Copyright Police’ by Macky Cruz (Technical Communications) Trend Micro Advanced Threats Researchers Ivan Macalintal and Paul Ferguson report that Internet spammers...
Aug 15 A Million Search Strings to Get Infected by Ryan Flores (Advanced Threats Researcher) Seems like the bad guys pushing fake antivirus software are not done yet. We received several reports from the...
img {max-width:650px;width: expression(this.width > 650 ? 650: true);border-style:none; behavior: url(../iepngfix.htc); } Aug 14 Fake Antivirus Trojans Ramping Up by Paul Oliveria (Technical Communications...
Another Round of Peacomm Infections Underway date 08-14-2008 04:08 PM author Sean Hittel writes: The Peacomm network has definitely turned out to be a survivor. With infections dating back to January 2007...
Thoughts on the Best Western Compromise Published: 2008-08-25, Last Updated: 2008-08-25 16:51:18 UTC by John Bambenek (Version: 1) 0 comment(s) The Sunday Herald reported on Sunday that Best Western was...
RedHat compromise sparks a Critical openssh security update Published: 2008-08-22, Last Updated: 2008-08-22 15:45:39 UTC by Patrick Nolan (Version: 2) 0 comment(s) digg_url = 'http://isc.sans.org/diary...
Buyer Beware - Scam Olympic Ticketing Sites About date 08-04-2008 11:19 AM author Hon Lau writes: body A timely warning to those wishing to purchase last minute tickets for the Beijing Olympic Games of...
Posted by cmosby | with no comments
More SQL Injections - very active right now Published: 2008-08-08, Last Updated: 2008-08-08 16:40:52 UTC by Mark Hofman (Version: 1) 5 comment(s) Scott one of our readers wrote in to let us know that attempts...
'CNN - My Custom Alert' Published: 2008-08-08, Last Updated: 2008-08-08 17:47:53 UTC by Mari Kirby Nichols (Version: 1) 1 comment(s) Thanks to our readers for letting us know that they are receiving...
Aug1 Phishers Hit Multiple Banks with One Stone by Verna Sagum (Anti-spam Engineer) A spoofed Web site that bears a close resemblance to the legitimate Internal Revenue Service Web page was recently encountered...
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...
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...
More Posts Next page »