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Olympic Fans May Fall for Unpatched MS Excel Vuln | TrendLabs | Malware Blog - by Trend Micro

Olympic Fans May Fall for Unpatched MS Excel Vuln March 9th, 2008 by Joseph Cepe XLS files specially designed to exploit a currently unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft Excel (identified as CVE-2008-0081 ) are reportedly being sent as email attachments in the wild. The attachments, which arrive either...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 03-10-2008
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, Patch Management, Microsoft Office, Spam\Phishing, Cybercrime
404 toolkit used by Vundo creators | TrendLabs | Malware Blog - by Trend Micro

404 toolkit used by Vundo creators March 9th, 2008 by Loucif Kharouni While checking my personal spam emails received yesterday, I got interested on a certain email asking the user to view adult pictures by clicking on the following picture: Once you click on the picture, it is linked to hxxp://{BLOCKED...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 03-10-2008
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, Internet Hacks, Spam\Phishing, Cybercrime
Symantec Security Response Weblog: Trojan.Trafbrush: Providing Click Fraud Services to Affiliates

Trojan.Trafbrush: Providing Click Fraud Services to Affiliates My colleague, Takashi Katsuki, posted a blog that describes how Trojan.Farfli provides a service to affiliates, which allows them to increase the number of hits for an affiliate’s tracker. Recently I came across another Trojan, which provides...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 03-12-2008
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, Internet Hacks, Spam\Phishing, Cybercrime
Symantec Security Response Weblog: Your Friendly Password Archiver

Your Friendly Password Archiver We all know that you should back up your data periodically if you don't want to lose it in the case of an incident. This is not as trivial as it used to be. You might have some information stored remotely in online services. Most likely you will have an online email...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 03-13-2008
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, Internet Hacks, Spam\Phishing, Cybercrime
Symantec Security Response Weblog: Spammers Exploit the Tax Season

I got one similar to these in my Inbox this morning. Spammers Exploit the Tax Season As reported in the February State of Spam report , we have observed spammers disguising themselves as the IRS and dangling an offer of a tax refund to unwitting recipients. That is, a refund made available once you input...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 03-17-2008
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, Spam\Phishing, Cybercrime
Targeted malware attacks against pro-Tibet groups - F-Secure Weblog : News from the Lab

Targeted malware attacks against pro-Tibet groups Posted by lab @ 16:24 GMT | postCount('00001406'); Comment (1) There's unrest on the streets of Tibet - clashes between Tibetians and the Chinese military. Quoting Wikipedia, "Tibet was once an independent kingdom, which later became...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 03-21-2008
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, Spam\Phishing, Cybercrime
Ratings Manipulation Reaches eBay | TrendLabs | Malware Blog - by Trend Micro

Ratings Manipulation Reaches eBay March 23rd, 2008 by Aileen Clemente If you have ever bought or sold anything on eBay , you pretty much know how important the seller ratings are. The general rating system is based on a one- to five-star scale and is determined by people you have done transactions with...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 03-24-2008
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, Internet Hacks, Spam\Phishing, Cybercrime
Overview of cyber attacks against Tibetan communities - SANS Internet Storm Center

Now this is some serious stuff!! Overview of cyber attacks against Tibetan communities Published: 2008-03-24, Last Updated: 2008-03-24 13:31:12 UTC by Maarten Van Horenbeeck (Version: 1) 0 comment(s) digg_url = 'http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=4177'; digg_title = 'Overview of cyber...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 03-24-2008
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, Internet Hacks, Spam\Phishing, Cybercrime
Phishing-Malware Bait: Brazilian Income Tax Return | TrendLabs | Malware Blog - by Trend Micro

Phishing-Malware Bait: Brazilian Income Tax Return March 26th, 2008 by Aivee Cortez The Web site of the Ministry of Finance in Brazil, Ministerio da Fazenda , has become the new target of the bad guys. Trend Micro Content Security Team found a phishing email that purports itself as a legitimate email...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 03-27-2008
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, Internet Hacks, Spam\Phishing, Cybercrime
Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge: Massive IFRAME SEO Poisoning Attack Continuing

Its just not safe out there anymore.... Massive IFRAME SEO Poisoning Attack Continuing Last week's massive IFRAME injection attack is slowly turning into a what looks like a large scale web application vulnerabilities audit of high profile sites. Following the timely news coverage , Symantec's...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 03-29-2008
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, Internet Hacks, Spam\Phishing, Cybercrime

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