Monthly Archives: June 2011

Removing Popureb Doesn’t Require a Windows Reinstall

June 30, 2011 – 7:26 am

By Marco Giuliani Last Wednesday, Microsoft published a blog post detailing a significant update to a piece of malware named Popureb. The malware adds code to the Master Boot Record, or MBR, a region of the hard disk that’s read by the PC during bootup, long before the operating system has had a chance to [...]

By Marco Giuliani | Posted in Advanced Malware Removal, Backdoors, Destructive behavior, malware, Ransomware, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research, Trojans | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (10)

Five Summer Travel Security Tips

June 24, 2011 – 3:16 pm

By Andrew Brandt Ah, summer. Beaches, drinks with little umbrellas, 4th of July fireworks, baseball games, reading long cheesy novels in a lounge chair, teleconferencing with colleagues from your hotel room in Aruba. Wait, what? Yes, it’s true. It takes serious discipline to travel without schlepping along a laptop, smartphone, digital camera, MP3 player, portable [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Posted in Firefox, Google Chrome, hijack search results, Internet Explorer, Mobile security, Threat Research, Trojans | Comments (2)

Phishers Cast Their Nets in the Social Media Pool

June 21, 2011 – 8:23 am

By Ian Moyse, EMEA Channel Director It can seem at times that the only people who like change are Internet attackers. And they don’t just like it—they need it. Technology’s rapid changes give cybercriminals new attack vectors to exploit, and new ways to turn a profit out of someone else’s misfortune. Take phishing, for example. [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Posted in Botnet activity, hijack search results, Keyloggers, phishing, Search engines, social engineering, social networks, spam, Stupid malware tricks, Trojans, Website owners | Tags: , , , , | Comments (2)

Fake UPS Document Installs Fake Microsoft Patch Payload

June 17, 2011 – 8:12 am

By Andrew Brandt As if we didn’t have enough to deal with this week — after a Microsoft patch Tuesday that brought with it a boatload of security updates for Windows, Office, Silverlight, Visual Studio, and other programs — some enterprising malware distributor is emailing around bogus tracking number malware dressed up in the icon [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Posted in Backdoors, Botnet activity, Downloaders, hijack search results, Keyloggers, Rogue Security Products, social engineering, spam, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (1)

Android ‘Angry Birds’ Malware Contains Bot-like Code

June 10, 2011 – 9:05 am

By Andrew Brandt Most of yesterday, Threat Research Analyst Armando Orozco and I took a closer look at a piece of malware discovered by a university security researcher, Xuxian Jiang of North Carolina State. The malicious code, which the malware creator named Plankton, is embedded into a number of apps that were briefly posted to [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Posted in Android, Backdoors, Botnet activity, Downloaders, Mobile security, social engineering, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research, Trojans | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (16)

Why Put Security Into the Cloud?

June 7, 2011 – 7:51 am

This week, Webroot’s Thre@t Reply managed to steal some time with Ian Moyse, who knows a thing or two about the benefits of putting your computer and network security into the cloud, out where the threats are, rather than keeping your security inside your network or on individual computers. As always, feel free to submit [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Posted in Enterprises, Internet security industry, phishing, social engineering, spam, Threat Research, Website owners | Tags: , , , , | Comments (2)
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