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Getting a “Conract” Doesn’t Make You a Rock Star

April 30, 2010 – 2:01 pm

By Andrew Brandt If you’re a rock-and-roll star, anticipating the imminent arrival of a new recording contract from your lawyer, you can stop reading this post. If you’re not, I’m sorry to be the one to tell you, it was not your hours of practice playing Rock Band, or singing in the shower, that attracted [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in Destructive behavior, social engineering, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Tags: Fregee, Losabel, Oficla, Our lawyers made alterations on the last page, Pushdo, Pushu, Sasfis, Tacticlol, Trojan-Downloader-Tacticlol, Trojan-Pushu, We are enclosing the file with the prepared contract, we are ready to make the payment on Friday for the first consignment | Comments (4)

Cloud Defs Limit the Damage of a False Positive

April 22, 2010 – 8:46 pm

By Andrew Brandt If you’re a customer or an employee of McAfee, chances are, you’re having a rough week. The company published a false positive, or FP, in its antivirus definitions that went out to customers a few days ago. The FP resulted in some computers going into a loop where the antivirus engine misidentified [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in Destructive behavior, Enterprises, Internet security industry, Rogue Security Products, Stupid malware tricks | Tags: cloud security, Email SaaS, false positive, FP, McAfee, security as a service, Web SaaS | Comments (1)

Modified Websites Pushing Trojans On the Rise

April 21, 2010 – 10:46 am

By Andrew Brandt For the past couple of weeks, owners of Web sites have been hit with a wave of attacks that surreptitiously infect unsuspecting visitors with a wide variety of malware types. The first wave inflicted rogue antivirus on unlucky victims, but late last week victims who visited infectious sites were redirected into a [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in adware, Blackhat SEO, Destructive behavior, Rogue Security Products, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Tags: Adobe Acrobat, corpadsinc.com, Eleonor exploit kit, Hilary Kneber, hnarmettis.com, iframe, iprototo.com, itotolo.com, Kneber, mainnetsoll.com, mnuyetsgrr.com, networkads.net, nuvolokijj.com, obfuscated Javascript, Tacticlol, totoship.com, Trojan-Backdoor-failst0rm, Trojan-Backdoor-Zbot, Trojan-Clicker-Dawg, Win32.Decay, Wordpress, yahoo-statistic.com | Comments (1)

This PC Will Self-Destruct in Ten Seconds

April 8, 2010 – 9:38 am

By Andrew Brandt Phishing Trojans that try to remain below the radar are still prevalent, but a number of files coming through Threat Research point to a disturbing trend: Several new variants of existing malware families are taking a scorched earth approach to infected computers, rendering the PC unbootable (just check out the batch file [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in Destructive behavior, Phishing Trojans, Rogue Security Products, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Tags: facebook, Facebook Password Reset Confirmation NR., Please print out the invoice copy attached, Rogue Security Products, UPS, UPS Delivery Problem NR., XP Defender, You can find your new password in attached document | Comments (10)

8 Tips for Filing Taxes Online Safely

April 6, 2010 – 9:22 am

By Mike Kronenberg Getting ready to file your taxes online — and doing it at the last minute? Well, cyber-scammers are ready for you. Thieves are schemers, and they’ve got a bag full of tricks to steal your identity. You might even be doing things to make their job easier. And if you use a [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in Keyloggers, Passwords, phishing, Phishing Trojans, social engineering | Tags: fraud, HMRC, internal revenue service, IRS, keylogger, phishers, phishing, tax, taxes | Comments (3)

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