May 11, 2009 - Spammers know a thing or two about persistence, it seems. CNET reports a new Trojan—TROJ_QHOST.TB—that is the latest to take advantage of fears of swine flu. TROJ_QHOST.TB modifies the HOSTS file (continue reading...) Read more
May 11, 2009 - The official launch of the Windows 7 Release Candidate last May 5 was soon followed by another version of the software, only that this other version came with a malware surprise. A file (continue reading...) Read more
May 6, 2009 - I’m very much looking forward to seeing old & new friends in Barcelona next week at the annual APWG Counter E-Crime Operations Summit (CeCOS) 2009. This will be the third instance (continue reading...) Read more
May 5, 2009 - Riding on the ongoing global economic recession, Waledac updates its spam messages with email subjects related to earning a fortune through Google cash. (continue reading...) Read more
May 4, 2009 - The Content Security Team encountered a phishing page of VONAGE. Vonage is a publicly-held commercial voice over IP (VoIP) network and SIP company that provides telephone service via a broadband connection. The phishing page looks exactly like Vonage official log (continue reading...) Read more
May 4, 2009 - After the Walmart phish, comes the KMart survery form phish wherein it promises to add a $150 to the users account just by taking the survey form. As shown in the verification page, the user has to rate each (continue reading...) Read more
May 3, 2009 - Another swine flu-related spam run was recently reported, this time targeting Japanese users. Aside from using the swine flu as its social engineering method, which has already been used in earlier spam runs, this spam run also uses a (continue reading...) Read more
May 3, 2009 - Websites related to pornography that appear to be compromised were found by Trend Micro engineers loading malicious JavaScript which redirects users onto malicious domains that ultimately lead to the download of an MBR rootkit (TROJ_SNOWAL.A)onto the affected system. (continue reading...) Read more
May 3, 2009 - Early this week, we’ve encountered a new Koobface spam campaign which involved links that eventually led users to this Youtube copycat web page. (continue reading...) Read more
April 30, 2009 - After spam runs related to UPS, FedEx, and Western Union, another form of invoice spam strikes again! We caught a new invoice spam that is purportedly from WorldPay, a division of (continue reading...) Read more
April 28, 2009 - After the World Health Organization raised its global alert level on the spreading swine flu virus, Spammers quickly used this event for their spam campaigns. Early this morning, we have seen spam samples using Swine flu worldwide! or Swine (continue reading...) Read more
April 27, 2009 - They say the Internet is making the world smaller. Whether that’s the case for the rest of us is debatable or not, but for one group of people it’s definitely true: spammers. Consider this new sample that our team came across (continue reading...) Read more
April 26, 2009 - Nikki Catsouras Let’s face it — cybercriminals never squander an opportunity to take advantage of potential victims’ curiosity, no matter how unethical, sick & twisted, or unscrupulous. Look at the tragic death of film star (continue reading...) Read more
April 22, 2009 - Every year, April 15th marks the deadline for the submission of tax returns in the US, and with it comes the now-classic IRS (Internal Revenue Service) scam. Scammers are on the hunt for those who were not able to file (continue reading...) Read more
April 21, 2009 - WALEDAC has found a new fetish — spamming users with email messages on free foot fetish movies. According to Advanced (continue reading...) Read more
April 17, 2009 - Days after the Twitter worm outbreak that affected “tens of thousands of users,” the attacks on the popular microblogging site are anything but slowing down. In fact, cyber criminals are taking advantage of the public’s interest (continue reading...) Read more
April 16, 2009 - After attempting to shock us with dire news of terrorist bombings, Waledac now attempts to entice us with offers of spying somebody else’s (notably a lover’s) SMS messages. (continue reading...) Read more
April 15, 2009 - Deviating from Conficker/Downad update and jigsaw puzzle menace, Waledac updated its spam emails and is now spamming online casino advertisements. (continue reading...) Read more
April 15, 2009 - Microsoft released a total of 8 patches last April 14, comprising of 5 critical, 2 moderate, and 1 important update for the Windows OS. More information on the said patches are given below: • (MS09-009) Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office (continue reading...) Read more
April 14, 2009 - This blog post puts together Trend Micro’s own DOWNAD research as well as collaborative input from the Conficker Working Group. It includes the collected reports regarding DOWNAD as well as analysis of binaries in one coherent timeline of events (continue reading...) Read more