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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
