February 4, 2009 - China’s use of zombies for spam is down, but the country now leads the United States in McAfee’s February Spam Report, available here for download. The United States has long been the leading supplier of spam, but with the overall (continue reading...) Read more
February 4, 2009 - An innovative social-engineering technique in which the virtual world meets the real world was described recently by SANS analyst Lenny Zeltser. The original post can be found here. Apparently, yellow fliers were placed on vehicles in a parking lot, (continue reading...) Read more
February 4, 2009 - In the middle of all the Downadup-related activity (see below), we're seeing spam runs trying to cash in with the inauguration of Barack Obama next week.Mails like this have been spammed around the world: (continue reading...) Read more
February 4, 2009 - The number of Downadup infections are skyrocketing based on our calculations. From an estimated 2.4 million infected machines to over 8.9 million during the last four days. That's just amazing.We've received a number of queries on (continue reading...) Read more
February 3, 2009 - This week a new AMTSO meeting hosted by Symantec is taking place in Cupertino (California).We are working on different documents that we had already started in the last AMTSO meeting in Oxford, (continue reading...) Read more
February 3, 2009 - We have an update on the number of infected computers.Today's calculation is a total of 8,976,038 infections worldwide and 353,495 unique IP addresses.That's a quite a big difference compared to our last number (continue reading...) Read more
February 3, 2009 - Today we discovered a new site using an interesting tactic to trick users into infecting themselves with malware. This time the cyber-criminals opted to pretend to be a Software as a Service (SaaS) Anti-Virus solution. The "Scan (continue reading...) Read more
February 2, 2009 - For those who think the holidays always start too early, guess what? It is time to get your Valentine’s on. Well, at least spammers think so. Avert Labs started seeing Valentine enticing spam on January 22, and it has (continue reading...) Read more
February 2, 2009 - Recently I bought a new cell phone: the HTC Touch Pro. Great mobile phone. Opera Mobile Web surfing is handled great. The Sprint EV-DO Rev A network is fast and it’s the most stable smart phone I’ve had so far. (continue reading...) Read more
February 1, 2009 - A new Massachusetts law called 201 CMR 17.00 from the Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation (OCABR) was passed in order to add additional protection requirements around personal information disclosure. This new regulation is specifically targeted to (continue reading...) Read more
February 1, 2009 - Are you confident that your current security solutions can handle today's blended attacks and emerging Web 2.0 threats? According to recent research by Websense Security Labs™, 90 percent of all unsolicited emails contain links to (continue reading...) Read more
February 1, 2009 - The Yahoo! open search redirection threat we blogged about just days ago may be from a totally different cybercriminal gang, but this new blackhat SEO poisoning makes clear that online search tools are quickly becoming favorite platforms (continue reading...) Read more
February 1, 2009 - We've been reading reports regarding the compromise of Paris Hilton, err… parishilton.com.A malicious IFrame was inserted on the site sometime last week. The IFrame content directed visitors to install "updated" software. Remember, if you must update (continue reading...) Read more