Monthly Archives: June 2010

WoW Expansion Beta Likely to Spawn Phishers, Scams

June 30, 2010 – 4:04 pm

By Andrew Brandt Blizzard’s announcement today that they will begin a closed beta-test for the latest expansion pack is likely to generate a lot of excitement among that particularly low breed of online criminals who steal the fruits of other people’s entertainment when they commandeer passwords for other players. While it’s hard to believe that [...]

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Chinese Phishers Get On the Fake Codec Bandwagon

June 28, 2010 – 3:19 pm

By Andrew Brandt Malware distributors in China have started pushing the same kinds of fake codec scams on unsuspecting Chinese Web surfers that criminals elsewhere in the world have mastered. I’m not sure how I feel about this. On the one hand, I feel sorry for the Chinese victims, most of whom are probably blissfully [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in Downloaders, Gaming threats, social engineering, Stupid malware tricks | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (1)

“OMG! Vuvuzela banned!” Tweets Infect Followers

June 24, 2010 – 10:26 pm

By Andrew Brandt Malware authors must have a soft spot in their hearts for the long-maligned South African vuvuzela, because once again, the  most annoying noisemaker in World Cup history is driving people to Web sites which push infections down to their computers. This time, people are retweeting the malicious links attached to a message [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in Downloaders, social engineering, social networks, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (1)

Keylogger Poses as Document from Spain’s Central Bank

June 21, 2010 – 2:06 pm

By Andrew Brandt An attempt to push down the Trojan-Backdoor-Zbot password thief to Spaniards may signal a new wave of attacks by a crew of attackers who spent the better part of 2009 trying to convince gullible Internet users in different countries to download and execute Zbot installers poorly disguised as transaction records or other [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in Keyloggers, Phishing Trojans, social engineering, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Comments (2)

More World Cup Shenanigans: “Anti-Vuvuzela Filter”

June 17, 2010 – 4:09 pm

By Andrew Brandt Someone called my attention today to a Web site selling something called an Anti-Vuvuzela Filter that costs €2.95 to download. Only, it’s a complete fraud. For the twelve other people in the world who haven’t been watching the World Cup matches in South Africa, the Vuvuzela is a South African horn that [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in Rogue Security Products, social engineering, spam, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Tags: , , , , , | Comments (2)

Rube Goldberg Trojan Works Hard for the Hijack

June 17, 2010 – 3:21 pm

By Andrew Brandt Money drives the motivation for most cybercrime, but it’s been a while since we’ve seen a criminal try to earn their money by driving traffic to a Web site, rather than just taking your cyberwallet. Some anonymous Trojan creator has taken a bold new approach towards a malware work ethic with his [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in Destructive behavior, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Tags: , , , , , , | Comments (1)

Facebook “Photo Album” Spam Drops Trojans

June 14, 2010 – 2:43 pm

By Andrew Brandt A spammed link campaign that spread through Facebook rapidly over the weekend delivered a malicious payload designed to take control of the Facebook account of any infected user, steal passwords, and hijack clicks in the victim’s browser. The messages appear as links sent by a friend, accompanied by the brain-damaged text “You? [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in Downloaders, Phishing Trojans, social engineering, social networks, Stupid malware tricks | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (1)

Spammed Trojan Won’t Run Under Windows XP

June 14, 2010 – 2:07 pm

By Andrew Brandt While it is far from the first Trojan ever to simply fail to execute under Windows XP, it definitely caught our eye that a variant of Trojan-Downloader-Tacticlol distributed last week in a spam campaign only fully executed under Windows Vista or newer operating systems. It may have been just a fluke, but [...]

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

Phisher Puts Antiphishing Tool in the Crosshairs

June 3, 2010 – 8:58 am

By Andrew Brandt A small-time Trojan has decided to butt heads with a big-time anti-phishing tool, and ended up with dirt on its face. The malware looks like a fairly generic clone of Trojan-Phisher-SABanks, with an extra feature that sounds like it might be a good selling point for cheap cybercrooks intent on stealing a [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in Keyloggers, phishing, Phishing Trojans, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Tags: , , , , , , , | Comments (1)
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