Monthly Archives: January 2010

Cover Your Assets on Data Privacy Day

January 28, 2010 – 2:48 pm

By Andrew Brandt Today is Data Privacy Day, which is supposed to remind us all that keeping our digital secrets a secret is important and necessary. To commemorate the event, I’d like to run down some of the most serious privacy threats any of us could face on a daily basis: How a malware infection [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in Online shopping threats, PC gaming, social engineering, social networks, Stupid malware tricks | Tags: | Comments (6)

Fakealerts Invade Google Image Search Results for ’24′ Star

January 27, 2010 – 5:10 pm

By Andrew Brandt Searchers beware: Those photos of celebrities or funny cat pictures that turn up in your Google image search results might not be photos at all, but fake antivirus alerts. Evidence appears to indicate that a similar scam to one we blogged about last November may be working its way up the Google [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in Blackhat SEO, Rogue Security Products, social engineering, Stupid malware tricks | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Comments (8)

Zbot Fakes ABA Banking Site, Seeks a Stimulus Package

January 27, 2010 – 4:37 pm

By Andrew Brandt As the reign of nuisance by Trojan-Backdoor-Zbot continues, the latest scam invites victims to review a “transaction report” on a page supposedly on the Web site of the American Bankers Association, or ABA. (I wouldn’t want to call it a reign of terror; that might give the Zbot authors an inflated sense [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in Phishing Trojans, social engineering, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Tags: , , , , , , | Comments (3)

Rogue AV Payload Blocks Popular Websites

January 25, 2010 – 5:16 pm

By Andrew Brandt A payload file installed along with some variants of the rogue Internet Security 2010 “antivirus” program modifies victims’ networking settings within Windows, inserting itself into the network stack and preventing victims from visiting some of the Web’s most popular Web sites. More than 40 sites have been targeted, including: Microsoft’s live.com and Bing [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in Firefox, Rogue Security Products, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Comments (9)

Zbot Desperately Seeking AIM Users

January 21, 2010 – 2:54 pm

By Andrew Brandt The Zbot keylogger campaign-of-the-month targets users of AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) with a message that claims to be an update notification for users of the instant messaging client application. Users unfortunate enough to click through the link in the email message to download what they think is something called “aimupdate_7.1.6.475.exe” will be [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in Keyloggers, social engineering, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (5)

‘Spongeface’ Koobface Variant Uses Spongebob as a Tease

January 20, 2010 – 12:40 pm

spongebob koobface

By mguthrie09 | Posted in social engineering, social networks, Stupid malware tricks, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Comments (4)

Phishers Break WoW’s Magic Spell Over Gamers

January 13, 2010 – 10:04 am

By Curtis Fechner and Andrew Brandt While we’ve touched on the subject of World of Warcraft phishers (and the Trojans they attempt to spread) a handful of times in the past several months, it’s worth mentioning the ongoing problems phishing posts cause both players and Blizzard, the game’s operator. To recap, the official message board [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in Gaming threats, Keyloggers, social engineering, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Tags: , , , , , | Comments (3)

Spammers Pushing Rogues Infiltrate Google Groups

January 8, 2010 – 10:42 am

By Andrew Brandt Spammers hawking “fun videos” have been worming their way into Google Groups, the global message board Google built on the skeleton of the old Usenet network. Only, the pages the spammers point victims to, which don’t actually contain videos, come with a nasty surprise: Rogue antivirus apps. The attacks began late last [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in Rogue Security Products, social engineering, Stupid malware tricks | Tags: , | Comments (1)
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