Category Archives: Phishing Trojans

Trojan software designed to steal login credentials, either by keylogging or by retrieving saved credentials from the victim’s Registry, browser cache and elsewhere.

How malware authors evade antivirus detection

January 18, 2012 – 6:37 pm

By Dancho Danchev Aiming to ensure that their malware doesn’t end up in the hands of vendors and researchers, cybercriminals are actively experimenting with different quality assurance processes whose objective is to increase the probability of their campaigns successfully propagating in the wild without detection. Some of these techniques include multiple offline antivirus scanning interfaces [...]

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Everyone has a role in protecting a corporate infrastructure (Part 1)

November 30, 2011 – 11:21 am

By Jacques Erasmus This time of year, those of us in information security become wary of crafty criminals leveraging the winter holidays to prey on our employees’ lack of awareness online in a number of ways. All it takes is for one Trojan to infect a single PC in a company to put an entire [...]

By jerasmus11 | Also posted in Uncategorized, Enterprises, social engineering, spam, phishing | Leave a Comment

Awake at all hours during Cyber Security Awareness Month

October 25, 2011 – 10:19 am

By Jacques Erasmus I’ve been having trouble sleeping lately, and last night I pinpointed why. October has presented me with a perfect storm of Internet security developments: I embarked on my first few weeks as chief information security officer for Webroot amidst the most significant consumer product launch the company has ever had. These activities [...]

By mguthrie09 | Also posted in Keyloggers, phishing, social engineering, Trojans | Comments (1)

Targeted Malware Infects Windows-based Cash Registers

August 9, 2011 – 5:01 am

By Andrew Brandt A serious, targeted threat from customized malware that steals credit card magnetic strip track data could literally bankrupt your business. That’s the message two security researchers from Trustwave gave at their talk during the Defcon computer security conference Saturday. The researchers, Jibran Ilyas and Nicholas Percoco of Trustwave Spider Labs, respond to [...]

By mguthrie09 | Also posted in Deep Knowledge, phishing, Threat Research | Comments (2)

Brazilian “Winehouse” Trojan Sends Hotmail, Bank Passwords to China

July 29, 2011 – 11:18 am

By Andrew Brandt Late Monday, after news about the death of troubled pop singer Amy Winehouse had been circling the globe for a little more than 48 hours, we saw the first malware appear that used the singer’s name as a social engineering trick to entice victims to run the malicious file. Abusing celebrity names, [...]

By mguthrie09 | Also posted in Botnet activity, phishing, social engineering, spam, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Comments (3)

New Bank Phisher Brings Added Functionality, Problems

February 23, 2011 – 4:23 pm

By Andrew Brandt I didn’t want to let too much time pass before I wrote about a new Zbot-like bank phishing Trojan variant that came across my desk last week. The keylogger started arriving the first week of February as an attachment to a spam email designed to look like it came from United Parcel [...]

By mguthrie09 | Also posted in Botnet activity, Downloaders, Keyloggers, phishing, social engineering, spam, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Comments (2)

Tips to Avoid Tax Season Scams

January 28, 2011 – 7:01 am

By Jeff Horne, Director, Threat Research As tax season rolls around again in the US and UK, it seems like a good time to revisit the perils taxpayers face seemingly every year at around this time. Phishing attacks against taxpayers are already in full swing — not that they haven’t been going continuously since last [...]

By mguthrie09 | Also posted in hijack search results, Internet Explorer, Passwords, phishing, social engineering, Threat Research | Comments (1)

10 Threats from 2010 We’d Prefer Remain History

January 1, 2011 – 3:32 pm

By Andrew Brandt With 2010 finally behind us, and an unknown number of cyberattacks likely to come in the new year, I thought I’d run down a brief list of the malicious campaigns criminals pulled off last year that I’d really dread to see anyone repeat. Now that they’re in the past, they should stay [...]

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Game Trojans’ Biggest Tricks in 2010

October 22, 2010 – 1:22 pm

By Andrew Brandt and Curtis Fechner It’s appropriate that this year’s Blizzcon, the two-day celebration of all things World of Warcraft, takes place during National Cyber Security Awareness Month. No other game is as heavily targeted by thieves as WoW, so we thought this would be as good a time as any to run down [...]

By mguthrie09 | Also posted in Botnet activity, Destructive behavior, Downloaders, Gaming threats, Keyloggers, phishing, social engineering, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Comments (1)

WoW Patch Brings Out the Malware Trolls

October 20, 2010 – 10:42 am

By Andrew Brandt Last week, Activision/Blizzard released a long-anticipated patch for its immensely popular game, World of Warcraft. While I don’t play this game, a number of our Threat Researchers do, and they’ve been on the lookout for shenanigans. Curtis Fechner found a doozy. The update comprises a major overhaul of many core systems within [...]

By mguthrie09 | Also posted in Gaming threats, phishing, social engineering, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research, Trojans | Comments (2)
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