September 3, 2010 - You’ve seen them before. The advance fee fraud or the 419 scams. The one where a prince, a distressed widow, or an unscrupulous but half literate bank manager contacts you with a proposal. Invariably, there is a Read more
September 3, 2010 - Today we have observed some messages which at first glance appeared to be somebody trying to correct their mistakes on the CV they sent out. All messages had the same body text that read as follows: Thank you for the chat yesterday, Read more
September 2, 2010 - SophosLabs has discovered a technique in anti-virus marketing, which we detect as Spin/BigNumber-P. Typical behaviour involves phrases such as “Product detects X viruses!”, where X is a large, rather exact-sounding number. Some variants involve high-tech numerical displays updated in real-time Read more
September 1, 2010 - Recently, creators of Fake Anti Virus software have been getting quite creative and somewhat “professional” in designing the look and feel of their fake software. Today I came across one with sounds. Read more
August 30, 2010 - Most typical modern malware variants tend to hide critical parts of their functionality (strings, URLs/IPs of its dodgy servers, etc.) using some form of encryption. In most cases only trivial algorithms are used. However, these suffice as the intention is Read more
August 29, 2010 - The following internet advice, which may have a subject title such as above, could just get you killed. Like any other middle aged, balding, over-weight chap my mother still worries about me. Read more
August 27, 2010 - An interesting phish was just escalated to me for analysis. Well, ironic more than interesting. Looking at the following phish:The message is a typical phish with clues to its nefarious origins.Dear Valued Customer, Your New Online Read more
August 26, 2010 - We have been discussing the issue of unsafe DLL loading in the lab since the release of the Microsoft advisory about a potential attack vector that uses the default Windows Read more
August 25, 2010 - Today in Boston is a special day. Yes it’s raining, but today the yellow buses have started their engines. It’s back to school time! I thought I might use this as Read more
August 23, 2010 - Every once in a while, I get the odd spam message that really makes me want to laugh. Take this one for instance. The spam message says that if I ever want to get a home loan, just feel free to Read more
August 19, 2010 - Adobe Systems has sent out a critical Security Advisory for Adobe Reader and Acrobat. This advisory is related to the security vulnerability CVE-2010-2862. For more information, please refer to Read more
August 19, 2010 - Or at least their length. Earlier this week I came across some rather interesting JavaScript injected into legitimate sites. The obfuscation method was new (to me at least) and piqued my interest. The payload itself is predictable and dull - addition of Read more
August 18, 2010 - Recently, my “Oh-So-Smart” colleague <3 Pete <3, highlighted Good Software Doing Bad Things and I was truly inspired and impressed. Thus, I went hunting. Hunting for other good software doing bad things. Now, I have a sequel to his excellent Read more
August 17, 2010 - Graham blogged about a Facebook clickjacking worm back in May which we dubbed Likejacking — for a number of weeks the threat ran rampant throughout Facebook. Since then, it has calmed down quite a bit and we don’t Read more
August 12, 2010 - Hi! I saw your ad on Craigs List I am going make this response short and sweet. If you are interested to make a bit of money on the net, then check-out this web-site called: reseller.info So it is not always the Read more
August 10, 2010 - There are 14 new releases in this month’s Microsoft patch release. Many of these are remote code execution bugs. Although we haven’t seen malware spreading via these bugs, it’s certainly a good idea to patch proactively. For the full details of this Read more
August 8, 2010 - Today I received a special package via email regarding cash worth the sum of USD $1.5M..Woooooo. However, I found out it is not easy to be the beneficiary of this package. Subject: RE: A G Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Read more
August 6, 2010 - It seems there’s a new scam flooding our mailboxes today which uses a technique which may get people to panic into doing something they shouldn’t. We’ve seen a number of different messages all using the same technique of thanking the Read more
