March 1, 2010 - A new wave of spammed messages posing as mail service notifications targeted antivirus companies, including Trend Micro. These messages ask the receivers to update their mailbox settings by opening and executing the attachment. (continue reading...) Read more
March 1, 2010 - Where news leads, cybercriminals follow. Over the weekend, a massive earthquake hit Chile and killed hundreds of people. This, of course, was soon followed by a blackhat SEO attack that successfully placed multiple malicious links leading to FAKEAV malware on (continue reading...) Read more
March 1, 2010 - A new KOOBFACE variant is again making the rounds in the social-networking scene. According to Trend Micro researcher, Norman Ingal, the malware employs Facebook’s Private Message feature to proliferate. The threat arrives as a Facebook private message that does not bear (continue reading...) Read more
March 1, 2010 - Phishing and its effects, namely, identity fraud, continue to grow. Unfortunately, it is now easier than ever to carry out these kinds of attacks. Cybercriminals are now using a new tool known as “Super Phisher” (detected by Trend Micro as (continue reading...) Read more
March 1, 2010 - Google recently announced its latest service Google Buzz, which is considered as the company’s first step in entering the social-networking scene. Naturally, hordes of Internet users became interested in the new application. But such buzz also (continue reading...) Read more
March 1, 2010 - We need your help to announce the launch of VIPRE 4.0!Tuesday March 2, 2010, Sunbelt Software is offering a (continue reading...) Read more
March 1, 2010 - Websense® Security Labs™ ThreatSeeker™ Network has discovered that the BBS of Sougou has been compromised. The Sougou BBS home page and other pages on the site have been injected with a malicious script. The script creates an IFrame that redirects users (continue reading...) Read more
March 1, 2010 - Hello again, Today we released Security Advisory 981169 to address the VBScript issue involving Windows Help files that we blogged about yesterday. To reiterate what we said in that post, we are not aware of any active (continue reading...) Read more
March 1, 2010 - The Australasian Consumer Fraud Taskforce began its 2010 Fraud Week campaign today with release of the first Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) scams activity report. Wednesday it will release information to (continue reading...) Read more
March 1, 2010 - In the interest of helping you cope with the "APT" hype, I thought I'd offer a few observations and ideas about things you can do that might actually help. After all, it's too easy to point and shout "hype" - (continue reading...) Read more
March 1, 2010 - The biggest news flashes for the last 48 hours involve reports of the devastating earthquake that struck near the coast of Chile, along with the tsunami threat to the Pacific region. As the extent of the damage due to the (continue reading...) Read more
March 1, 2010 - We recently released the Cisco 2009 Annual Security Report. This is the most recent edition of our security report series, which was started in December of 2007 and now includes both annual and midyear reports. These documents primarily (continue reading...) Read more
March 1, 2010 - You may be wondering why I have a photo of a bunch of pocket calculators up above (a photo that I took myself, copyright fans). Well, they’re actually authentication devices for various PC games, (continue reading...) Read more
March 1, 2010 - There are new features in our latest release of Mobile Security. And one that affects the lab directly, is Browsing Protection.With version 6 of Mobile Security, users will be protected from phishing sites.Harmful (continue reading...) Read more
March 1, 2010 - By Yuriko Kako-Batt, Anti-spam Analyst, Symantec Hosted Services Spam is one of the biggest problems for all of people who are using email. And what we imagine when we think of the word of “spam” can be different for all (continue reading...) Read more
March 1, 2010 - avast! Free Antivirus can be downloaded for free from our servers or from other download servers such as download.com, 01.fr and others. But why limit yourself to avast! Free Antivirus if there are other products available with additional functionality that (continue reading...) Read more
March 1, 2010 - The GSMA Mobile World Congress 2010 is starting next week in Barcelona. It's going to be a huge event.I got a text message like this from an unknown number: (continue reading...) Read more
March 1, 2010 - If last week we talked about a rogueware program that had deliberately imitated Microsoft’s free antimalware protection called Security Essentials, today we’re going to show you a program that imitates Panda Security’s products, site, logo, etc. You’ll probably have ever played (continue reading...) Read more