Monthly Archives: September 2009

Roman Polanski Arrest Spawns Headline-Hooking Rogues

September 28, 2009 – 10:28 am

By Andrew Brandt and Brenden Vaughan As we’ve seen for the past several months, a celebrity ended up the top news story, which started a cascade of malware distributors racing to get their driveby pages to the top of search results. Today’s victim/subject is Roman Polanski, the renowned film director arrested on decades old charges [...]

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One Click, and the Exploit Kit’s Got You

September 18, 2009 – 10:37 am

By Andrew Brandt After all the brouhaha surrounding the NYTimes.com website hosting ads which spawned rogue antivirus Fakealerts last weekend, I spent a considerable amount of time looking at so-called exploit kits this week. These are packages, made up of custom made Web pages (typically coded in the PHP scripting language), which perform a linchpin [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in Blackhat SEO, Firefox, Keyloggers, Phishing Trojans, social engineering, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Tags: , , , , , , , | Comments (4)

“Shipping Confirmation” Malware on the Rise

September 15, 2009 – 4:27 pm

By Andrew Brandt As autumn approaches, the world typically sees an increase in the number of online shopping trips, as people take advantage of bargains from late-year sales, and prepare for various holidays. And, right on cue, we’re also seeing an increase in the number of Trojans distributed in the guise of “shipping confirmation” email [...]

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‘Koobfox’ variant digs for Firefox cookies

September 3, 2009 – 3:34 pm

By Andrew Brandt A new variant of the Koobface worm started striking out this week, with a twist: Where the older Koobface would steal and use the cookies saved by Internet Explorer which store social network logins in order to spread its infectious messages in the victim’s name, this new variant is pulling down a [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in Phishing Trojans, social engineering, social networks, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Tags: , , , , | Comments (8)
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