Monthly Archives: August 2010

A Cave Monster from Hell Wants Your Financial Data

August 20, 2010 – 3:50 pm

By Andrew Brandt A novel and pretty sneaky Trojan designed to steal financial data appeared on our radar screen last week. The Trojan, once installed on a victim’s computer, rootkits itself to prevent detection, then watches the victim’s browser for any attempt to connect to the secured, HTTPS login page of several online banks. When [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in Online shopping threats, Passwords, phishing, Phishing Trojans, Threat Research, Trojans | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Comments (5)

Subscription Renewal Spam Points to Drive-by

August 6, 2010 – 1:10 pm

By Andrew Brandt Dear Customers: Please be aware that a crew of Russian malware distributors are circulating a spam message which looks like a subscription renewal confirmation from Best Buy, allegedly for one of our products. The linked text in the message, however, leads to a Web site which performs a drive-by download. Please don’t [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in Destructive behavior, Downloaders, Rogue Security Products, social engineering, spam, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Tags: , , , , , , | Comments (4)

Blackhat SEO of Google Images Links to Rogue AV

August 3, 2010 – 1:35 pm

By Andrew Brandt Yesterday, a few of the Threat Research folks and I had a little fun playing with a hack that had, for one day at least, pretty much decimated Google’s Image Search feature. One researcher, who stumbled into the attack purely by chance, found that a Google Images link to a map of [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in Blackhat SEO, Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Rogue Security Products, Safari, Search engines, social engineering, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research, Trojans | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (11)
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