March 25, 2010 - Trend Micro senior advanced threats researcher Paul Ferguson received a spam claiming to be from the Bureau of the Shanghai World Expo, which is coordinating “Expo 2010,” from a technology news group journalist who actually received it. (continue reading...) Read more
March 25, 2010 - A blog reader has gotten in-touch with us asking about a threat he had received that had evaded the email filters on his web-email account. The email with a subject “Complaint filled against you.” has a body of: March 25, 2010 Marcus (continue reading...) Read more
March 24, 2010 - Last year, during the UK local elections, I blogged about how the Communist Party of Britain’s website was infected. Earlier today, I noticed that the site had once again been infected this time with different malware. This infection, like (continue reading...) Read more
March 24, 2010 - Advanced threats researcher Ivan Macalintal spotted a fresh wave of spammed messages that were used to spread another ZBOT variant of the infamous ZeuS botnet. These messages warned users that a “jerk” posted photos of them and contained a link (continue reading...) Read more
March 24, 2010 - TrendLabs recently received a new FAKEAV sample, which we now detect as TROJ_FAKEAV.BLW. Like previous variants, it poses as a legitimate antivirus application that displays false detections, disables firewall and security center functions, and produces pop-up warnings to force (continue reading...) Read more
March 21, 2010 - Trend Micro came across a new FAKEAV variant that does not only perform the usual fake alert routine, but also downloads an additional component—a .DLL file that is inserted into the Layered Service Provider (LSP) chain. By inserting itself into the (continue reading...) Read more
March 19, 2010 - Last few years can be called a “social networking era”. Just remember the rise ups (and depressions) of myspace.com, linked.in etc. These networks are now completely shadowed by FaceBook and Twitter. Even when myspace and similar networks are not that (continue reading...) Read more
March 17, 2010 - Late last year I blogged about Troj/JSRedir-AK and how it was very prevalent ~40% of web-based malware. Earlier this year I mentioned it had changed and late last month I saw that it had changed again into (continue reading...) Read more
March 16, 2010 - TrendLabs researchers recently received a report on malvertisements that appeared while a user was browsing through a popular Web-based email service. At first glance, the ads may seem like the typical Web browser nuisance. However, random ads were proven to be (continue reading...) Read more
March 16, 2010 - So the Chicago river is colored green, the parade marched last Saturday and I am still(!) trying to figure out what the heck this vegetarian is going to eat for dinner on St. Patrick’s Day! I miss the traditional corned (continue reading...) Read more
March 14, 2010 - The Saturday night boxing match between Manny Pacquiao and Joshua Clottey was one of the most awaited sports events of 2010. It should not be a surprise then that cybercriminals took advantage of it to spread malware. Another blackhat search (continue reading...) Read more
March 14, 2010 - For cybercriminals, another celebrity’s death means a new life for their scams. Earlier today, we discovered new FAKEAV variants that take advantage of the death of the former Canadian teen idol, Corey Haim. Using blackhat search engine optimization (SEO) techniques, a (continue reading...) Read more
March 13, 2010 - Yesterday evening my student daughter arrived home for the weekend bringing a bag full of laundry, one full of books and, for a change, the laptop belonging to one of her housemates. It seems that towards the end of last year the impoverished student (continue reading...) Read more
March 12, 2010 - Security researchers recently unveiled findings about malware that came preinstalled on a Vodafone mobile phone handset. Its memory card was also believed to carry malware. A leading mobile telecommunication company, Vodafone, has been (continue reading...) Read more
March 11, 2010 - Malware has traditionally been easy to spot and classify, mainly because it was created to serve a specific nefarious purpose and nothing else. In the ongoing arms race between malware (continue reading...) Read more
March 10, 2010 - Most of us are familiar with how high profile news events are used for malware distribution. We’ve seen it many times such as with Tiger Woods’ scandal and the earthquake in Haiti. Now the recent earthquake in Chile is used (continue reading...) Read more
March 10, 2010 - Hot on the heels of the Patch Tuesday announcements yesterday (see blog or links to vulnerability assessment pages), came the announcement of a new zero-day in Internet Explorer (CVE-2010-0806). Whilst checking through some URLs supposedly serving up (continue reading...) Read more
March 9, 2010 - It seems that fans around the world are not the only ones who are hooked on the Oscars. Just a day after this year’s Academy Awards, Trend Micro threat researchers found FAKEAV variants topbilling the search pages. (continue reading...) Read more
March 8, 2010 - The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) issued a new vulnerability note. However, this particular “vulnerability” concerns a rather unusual product—a USB charger for rechargeable batteries. The Energizer DUO is a charger for two AA (continue reading...) Read more
March 6, 2010 - On Friday evening I was talking to a North American customer who had been fighting with infections caused by SEO poisoning. They mentioned a particular search term that could generate new samples of FakeAVs. The funny thing was that the (continue reading...) Read more