Content Tagged ‘TrendMicro’

Close Encounter with an Internet Scammer

August 19, 2010 - This is just the story of a scam somebody tried to pull on me yesterday. It was too funny not to publish it. The fact is that I’m selling my car so I put it up on Facebook Marketplace. After a Read more

Spammers Target Facebook and Twitter at Once

June 21, 2010 - Due to their ever-growing popularity, social networks have been a continuous target of cybercriminals to proliferate their malicious schemes. TrendLabsSM received samples of another Facebook spam, this time also taking advantage of the popular micro-blogging site, Twitter. Read more

Months-Old Skype Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild

June 16, 2010 - Cybercriminals have once again used a not-so-new but still a seemingly promising medium for their malware campaigns. Earlier today, ZDNet reported a “new” exploit that targets Skype users. This exploit takes advantage of a vulnerability Read more

Microsoft Help Center Zero-Day Exploits Loose

June 15, 2010 - Heads-up for users still running Windows XP: The unpatched Help Center flaw revealed last week is now out in the wild and being used to launch malware attacks against target users. This new zero-day exploit takes advantage of the Read more

Passwords Matter—The Hidden Risks “Minor” Info Stealers Pose

June 15, 2010 - Last week, we had two major mass compromises. The first one hit more than 100,000 websites, including major news sites like the Wall Street Journal and the Jerusalem Post. The second campaign was much Read more

Spoofed Trend Micro Alert Leads to Canadian Pharma Site

June 11, 2010 - With the underground economy still thriving, cybercriminals will surely use any method such as Canadian pharma spam runs to facilitate their information theft operations. Canadian pharmacy sites are known to be used by scammers to sell a wide range of fake Read more

Bye, Bye Tequila Botnet

June 9, 2010 - Last week, we talked about the Tequila botnet that was targeting Mexican users. Since our last post, there has been one big development—the botnet appears to have been taken down by the owners themselves. On Thursday (June 3, 2010), the botnet’s Read more

Increased Use of MultiPart Malicious JavaScripts in the Wild

June 9, 2010 - Malicious JavaScript code used to be contained in single .JS or .HTML files, which made malicious JavaScript analysis and detection pretty straightforward. However, in the past few days, a couple of distinct Web compromises caught my attention because the codes involved Read more

Bogus Twitter Spam Hits Inboxes

June 9, 2010 - Spammers seem to be on something of a Twitter rampage of late. They have sent out a wide variety of spammed messages recently that all appear to be from Twitter: Read more

Patch Now: 10 Updates for June Patch Tuesday

June 8, 2010 - After a relatively quiet May with only two security bulletins, Microsoft comes out with 10 security bulletins in June’s Patch Tuesday release. Three of these were rated “critical,” which means these vulnerabilities could be exploited Read more

Zero-Day Flash/Acrobat Exploit Seen in the Wild

June 5, 2010 - On Friday, Adobe released a security advisory announcing a zero-day exploit found in specific Adobe Flash Player versions. Tagged as critical, the vulnerability (CVE-2010-1297) causes the application to crash. Potentially, the Read more

Infected S8500 Wave Phones Make It to Germany

June 5, 2010 - An addition to the roster of digital devices that have been shipped with malware, Samsung, too, seems to have accidentally distributed malware along with the new Bada-powered Samsung S8500 Wave smartphone. It has Read more

FIFA and Gaza Attack Tweets Dump Backdoors

June 4, 2010 - What do the “FIFA World Cup” and Gaza attack have in common? They are both currently being used as social engineering ploys by a couple of malware campaigns seen on Twitter. TrendLabsSM senior threat researcher Ivan Macalintal spotted several malicious Read more

Mac Sniffer Monitors IM Chats and RTMP Data Packets

June 3, 2010 - TrendLabsSM engineers Alvin Bacani and Jayson Pryde recently analyzed a new spyware (detected by Trend Micro as OSX_OPINIONSPY.A) that came bundled with screensavers, according to Intego, in sites that host free applications and software updates like MacUpdate, Softpedia, Read more

419 Scam Resurfaces with FBI Spam

June 3, 2010 - Cybercriminals have found yet another way to grab users’ attention. This time, they posed as members of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from Washington D.C. to scam users with a spammed message. Read more

Emerging Blackhat SEO Techniques

June 2, 2010 - While conducting blackhat search engine optimization (SEO) investigations, I stumbled upon an SEO attempt hosted in the popular document-sharing site Scribd.The document that contains the SEO strings and links was Read more

“Tequila Botnet” Targets Mexican Users

June 2, 2010 - We recently received a report of a new phishing attack that originated from Mexico. It takes advantage of the controversial news about an allegedly missing four-year-old girl, Paulette Gebara Farah, who was later found dead in her own bedroom.  Read more

Another Vulnerability Discovered in Ichitaro

May 31, 2010 - A new exploit has been found in the Japanese word processor Ichitaro. JP-RTL engineers have received a sample Ichitaro document, which is capable of exploiting the previously unknown vulnerability. It is released by Japanese Read more

Is It Time to Quit Facebook?

May 31, 2010 - Today is the last day of May and, for some people, the last day their Facebook accounts are available online. Recent changes to Facebook’s privacy settings are regarded as rather confusing and not readily Read more

SASFIS Malware Uses a New Trick

May 31, 2010 - Early this year, the SASFIS Trojan became notorious in relation to spoofed email messages supposedly from Facebook. SASFIS infections usually result in tons of other malware infections, as this particular family makes systems susceptible to botnet attacks, particularly from Read more

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