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Fake IRS Web Sites Found (Again) | TrendLabs | Malware Blog - by Trend Micro

Fake IRS Web Sites Found (Again) January 11th, 2008 by Bernadette Irinco TrendLabs researchers have discovered a number of bogus Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Web sites containing links to a host of malicious .EXE files. These bogus Web sites try to appeal to the attention of business managers and accountants...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 01-14-2008
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, Internet Hacks, Spam\Phishing
Xbox Live Accounts Hacked | TrendLabs | Malware Blog - by Trend Micro

Xbox Live Accounts Hacked January 12th, 2008 by Arman Capili The online gaming industry suffered another security setback as Microsoft’s popular online gaming service, Xbox Live , was reported to have experienced a high-profile hacking incident. On 29 December 2007, Halo 3 star gamer Colin Fogel found...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 01-14-2008
Filed under: Internet Hacks, Internet Applications, Security
Symantec Security Response Weblog: Banking in Silence

Banking in Silence Targeting over 400 banks (including my own :( ! ) and having the ability to circumvent two-factor authentication are just two of the features that push Trojan.Silentbanker into the limelight. The scale and sophistication of this emerging banking Trojan is worrying, even for someone...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 01-14-2008
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, Internet Hacks, Spam\Phishing
Blogger Battling Continuing Problems With ‘Illicit’ Blogs | TrendLabs | Malware Blog - by Trend Micro

Blogger Battling Continuing Problems With ‘Illicit’ Blogs January 9th, 2008 by Paul Ferguson Click for larger image. You’ve seen us blog about problems with Google’s Blogger service before , but now it appears to have an ongoing problem with “malicious” content of a different sort — illicit pages which...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 01-12-2008
Filed under: Internet Hacks, Security
Comments from the Zango CTO about the Fortinet advisory on "Secret Crush"

I got this e-mail from Ken Smith, the Zango CTO, concerning the recent news flurry about the "Secret Crush" app on Facebook. In the interest of equal time for all parties, I have included it here: For what it's worth, you may want to read my blog posting about the Fortinet advisory: http...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 01-12-2008
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, Internet News, Internet Hacks
A Tangled Web… of Malware | TrendLabs | Malware Blog - by Trend Micro

A Tangled Web… of Malware January 10th, 2008 by Paul Ferguson Following up on some new ZLOB domains and malware, I continue to be amazed at the efforts of cyber criminals to social engineer the web, poison web search engines, pollute news & blogging websites, register bogon domains, and obtain hosting...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 01-11-2008
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, Internet Hacks, Spam\Phishing
First iPhone Nuisance App: Created By A Pre-Teen | TrendLabs | Malware Blog - by Trend Micro

First iPhone Nuisance App: Created By A Pre-Teen January 9th, 2008 by Ma. Christina Cruz Sure, the iPhone has topped Time’s Magazine’s Top 10 Gadgets of the Year , but that doesn’t mean it is safe from the reach of digital threats. Already this New Year brings with it a new, albeit minor, annoyance for...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 01-11-2008
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, Internet Explorer, Internet Hacks, Mobile\Wireless
Targeted Attack in Mexico: DNS Poisoning via Modems | TrendLabs | Malware Blog - by Trend Micro

Targeted Attack in Mexico: DNS Poisoning via Modems January 11th, 2008 by Paul Oliveria “Dial ‘M’ for malware” sounds like a good phrase to sum this up… TrendLabs researchers have received reports of what appears to be an attempt of a massive DNS poisoning attack in Mexico. True to the growing complexity...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 01-11-2008
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, Internet Hacks, Spam\Phishing
Phishing from the Storm Botnet - F-Secure Weblog : News from the Lab

Phishing from the Storm Botnet Posted by Mikko @ 11:43 GMT | Last night there was a phishing run using the domain i-halifax.com . The IP address of the site was changing every second or so. The server i-halifax.com was an active fast flux site and was hosted within a botnet. Interestingly, when we picked...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 01-11-2008
Filed under: Internet Hacks, Spam\Phishing
Storm Gets New Toys for Christmas | TrendLabs | Malware Blog - by Trend Micro

Storm Gets New Toys for Christmas January 3rd, 2008 by Robert McArdle The latest wave of Storm (See previous posts here , here , here and here ) has thrown up some interesting new techniques to make analysis even more difficult. HIDDEN LINKS The first is quite clever, specifically targeted at any security...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 01-11-2008
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, Internet Hacks

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