May 23, 2011 - Symantec has discovered a Trojanized version of a legitimate application that is part threat, part doomsayer. The threat was embedded in a pirated version of an app called ‘Holy ***king Bible’, which itself has stirred controversy on multiple forums in (continue reading...) Read more
May 20, 2011 - At first, I was just plain annoyed. Someone forwarded a hoax email to me twice in the same week. I am often asked about hoax email: “Kevin, you work at Symantec, is this true?” That’s fine; that’s not what annoyed (continue reading...) Read more
May 19, 2011 - W32.Qakbot is a worm that's been around since at least 2009. The worm initially infects users by exploiting vulnerabilities when certain Web pages are visited. It subsequenly spreads through network shares and removable drives. It downloads additional files, steals (continue reading...) Read more
May 18, 2011 - The unexpected raid and resulting death of Osama Bin Laden shocked the world. As always, spammers were quick to jump on this headline and send a variety of spam messages leveraging the event. The “Fallout from the Death of Osama (continue reading...) Read more
May 16, 2011 - There is currently a new spam campaign spreading across Facebook. The spam has an appearance similar to the following: It is worth mentioning that the app_id in the requests is “6628568379”, which may cause the post to (continue reading...) Read more
May 16, 2011 - Last year, phishers targeted Wikipedia with a large number of spam emails that directed unsuspecting users to a fraudulent Wikipedia website. Currently, we are observing a new spam tactic being used, which targets the Wikipedia name for the promotion of (continue reading...) Read more
May 16, 2011 - Have you ever had a hard drive failure? I have. It happened to me in my first ever computer job. I was about six months in, working on a small part of a big project, and we had a milestone (continue reading...) Read more
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May 10, 2011 - Spamming with dotted decimal URL (a dotted decimal URL refers to the four-byte IP address notation as a sequence of four decimal numbers separated by dots) is one of the most often seen URL-obfuscation techniques employed by spammers. Unfortunately, to (continue reading...) Read more
May 10, 2011 - Hello and welcome to this month’s blog on the Microsoft patch release. This is very light month —the vendor is releasing two bulletins covering a total of three vulnerabilities. One of the issues is rated ‘Critical’ and it affects Windows Internet (continue reading...) Read more
May 10, 2011 - Third parties, in particular advertisers, have accidentally had access to Facebook users’ accounts including profiles, photographs, chat, and also had the ability to post messages and mine personal information. Fortunately, these third-parties may not have realized their ability to access (continue reading...) Read more
May 10, 2011 - Scammers have been busy these days generating false news alerts through email spam. In this way, they are trying to advertise their so-called rewarding “work from home” business. They are using names of well known news agencies in the (continue reading...) Read more
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May 4, 2011 - We know that Facebook scammers can be very creative and that they are experimenting with new ways to achieve their goals. Besides the omnipresent malicious Facebook apps that will steal the user’s permissions to post to his or her wall, (continue reading...) Read more
May 4, 2011 - Even before a user accepts the installation of a Facebook application, Facebook will send a limited amount of user data to the application’s website in order to help personalize your experience. Unfortunately, this user data includes information that users may (continue reading...) Read more
May 4, 2011 - Who was the one who held you in their arms when you let out your first cry in the world? Did you say “doctor?” Well, that may be true in some cases, but the more obvious answer is “mother.” Dating back (continue reading...) Read more
May 3, 2011 - The first spam using the news of Osama Bin Laden’s death was seen in the wild within three hours of the event—Symantec reported this spam activity along with other spam samples in a blog entitled “Osama Dead” is No (continue reading...) Read more
May 3, 2011 - We recently analyzed the source code of a malicious Apache Web server module that was using Apache filter functionality to infect HTML pages. This is a more active, complex, and unusual attack than simply infecting static Web pages on a (continue reading...) Read more
May 2, 2011 - It’s been a week since a senior official in Iran announced that they had discovered a new targeted attack aimed at them. The details of this attack are still vague. While Iran has labeled the attack "Stars", it’s not clear (continue reading...) Read more
May 2, 2011 - That’s right, and this time it’s not a hoax! Bin Laden was killed by a CIA-led operation on Sunday night at a mansion in Abbottabad, north of Islamabad. In 2004, Symantec reported a hoax email attack with the subject (continue reading...) Read more