Monthly Archives: May 2011

MacProtector: Rogue of the Week

May 27, 2011 – 6:00 pm

By Andrew Brandt This week, we turn our attention temporarily away from the never-ending stream of rogue security products on the Windows platform and take a closer look at the Mac OS analogue, MacProtector (aka Mac Security, Mac Defender, MacGuard, and–if history serves–soon to be many, many other names). There’s been a lot of press [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Posted in Advanced Malware Removal, Rogue Security Products, social engineering, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a Comment

Thre@t Reply: What’s a Firewall?

May 24, 2011 – 2:43 pm

This week’s Thre@t Reply video features Threat Research Analyst Armando Orozco answering one of the most frequently asked questions we receive: What is a firewall, and how does it work? Well, the actual question wasn’t put quite so politely, but that’s the gist of it. Armando is the primary researcher working on the Mobile Security [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Posted in Botnet activity, Destructive behavior, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Tags: , , | Comments (5)

Rogue of the Week: Windows Recovery

May 19, 2011 – 10:56 pm

By Andrew Brandt Word from the AMR group last week was that there weren’t many changes from the previous week; Many of the same rogue antivirus previously reported in this blog continue to plague the Internet. This week I decided to focus on a rogue that’s recently become a problem. It goes by the name [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Posted in Advanced Malware Removal, Internet Explorer, Rogue Security Products, social engineering, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Tags: , , , , , | Comments (7)

Chinese Android Trojan Texts Premium Numbers

May 11, 2011 – 12:42 pm

By Andrew Brandt and Armando Orozco A Trojaned application that displays a cutesy image of a 2011 calendar on an Android device’s desktop comes with a nasty surprise: The app sends text messages to a premium service that charges the phone’s owner money. As first reported by the Taiwan-based AegisLab, a single developer, which went [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Posted in adware, Android, Dialers, Mobile security, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (1)

Antivirus Center: Rogue of the Week

May 10, 2011 – 2:59 pm

By Andrew Brandt and Brenden Vaughan Our Advanced Malware Removal group reported seeing several cases of a rogue called Antivirus Center this past week. The rogue isn’t new – we began seeing samples of it last year – but has re-emerged as a threat. This rogue is characterized by a close mimicry of some aspects [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Posted in Advanced Malware Removal, Rogue Security Products, social engineering, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Comments (5)

Thre@t Reply: “Online Shopping” | Part 2 of 2

May 9, 2011 – 9:06 am

In the second of a two-part series with Threat Research Analyst Grayson Milbourne, we answer a question about how to stay safe when shopping online. In the previous video, Grayson discussed how to identify a phishing page. In this episode, he continues his discussion by explaining how to tell whether the site you’re trying to purchase [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Posted in Online shopping threats, phishing, Threat Research, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , | Comments (1)

Thre@t Reply: “Online Shopping” | Part 1 of 2

May 2, 2011 – 1:33 pm

In the latest Thre@t Reply video, Threat Research Analyst Grayson Milbourne answers a reader’s question about how to avoid being phished. The first step is to be able to identify whether you’re on the legitimate Web site you think you are, and if you’re not, what are the telltale signs that indicate you may be [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Posted in Online shopping threats, phishing, spam, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Tags: , , , , , , , | Comments (3)
Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.

Join 609 other followers