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.

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 | Also posted in Keyloggers, phishing, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Comments (1)

Trojan Masquerades as iTunes Gift or Résumé

May 12, 2010 – 10:06 am

By Andrew Brandt If you received one or more email messages over the past week that claim to contain an attached gift certificate for the Apple iTunes store or an unsolicited résumé, you probably received the latest scam involving the Tacticlol downloader. The iTunes-themed spam messages use the forged return address of gifts.certificate@itunes.com and read, [...]

By mguthrie09 | Also posted in social engineering, spam, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Comments (2)

This PC Will Self-Destruct in Ten Seconds

April 8, 2010 – 9:38 am

By Andrew Brandt Phishing Trojans that try to remain below the radar are still prevalent, but a number of files coming through Threat Research point to a disturbing trend: Several new variants of existing malware families are taking a scorched earth approach to infected computers, rendering the PC unbootable (just check out the batch file [...]

By mguthrie09 | Also posted in Destructive behavior, Rogue Security Products, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Comments (10)

8 Tips for Filing Taxes Online Safely

April 6, 2010 – 9:22 am

By Mike Kronenberg Getting ready to file your taxes online — and doing it at the last minute? Well, cyber-scammers are ready for you. Thieves are schemers, and they’ve got a bag full of tricks to steal your identity. You might even be doing things to make their job easier. And if you use a [...]

By mguthrie09 | Also posted in Keyloggers, Passwords, phishing, social engineering | Comments (3)

Play it Safe on Safer Internet Day

February 8, 2010 – 12:32 pm

By Andrew Brandt February 9 marks Safer Internet Day, and around the world, people are trying to help their fellow netizens navigate an obstacle course of threats to their security and privacy. InSafe, the organization funded by the EU that sponsors the annual youth-targeted event, has themed the day around the concept “Think B4 U [...]

By mguthrie09 | Also posted in Firefox, Gaming threats, social engineering, social networks, Stupid malware tricks | Comments (4)

Zbot Fakes ABA Banking Site, Seeks a Stimulus Package

January 27, 2010 – 4:37 pm

By Andrew Brandt As the reign of nuisance by Trojan-Backdoor-Zbot continues, the latest scam invites victims to review a “transaction report” on a page supposedly on the Web site of the American Bankers Association, or ABA. (I wouldn’t want to call it a reign of terror; that might give the Zbot authors an inflated sense [...]

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

Visa Targeted (Again) by Zbot Phishers

December 11, 2009 – 10:18 am

By Andrew Brandt The gang of malware distributors who are currently flooding the Internet with bogus Facebook “Update Tool,” CDC “H1N1 Flu Vaccination Profile,” and IRS “Tax Statement” emails and Web pages are at it again — this time, targeting Visa with a fake email alert that leads to a page hosting not only a [...]

By mguthrie09 | Also posted in Online shopping threats, social engineering, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Comments (9)

Bogus “New Moon” Torrents Lead to Malware

December 4, 2009 – 2:22 pm

By Andrew Brandt A week since the file-sharing clearinghouse Mininova changed its business model and deleted links to copyrighted material being shared over the peer-to-peer Bittorrent network, malware distributors continue to exploit the confusion as people who download movies, TV shows, and other shared files seek out new sources for those files. As a torrent [...]

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

Fake Zbot Site Poses as CDC H1N1 Flu Vaccine Info

December 1, 2009 – 1:40 pm

By Andrew Brandt The newest victim of the faux-Web-sites-posing-as-government-pages scam is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In the same vein as fake pages supposedly hosted on the Web servers of the IRS, FDIC, and other organizations, we’re seeing a new scam to infect computers with Trojan-Phisher-Zbot that pretends to be a “Personal H1N1 [...]

By mguthrie09 | Also posted in social engineering, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Comments (9)

Phishing Scheme Targets E-Payment Rule-Maker, NACHA

November 12, 2009 – 10:18 am

By Andrew Brandt Coming on the heels of similar fraud schemes that targeted victims using the names of such familiar institutions as the FDIC, IRS, and HMRC, scammers are trying to get people to infect their own computer using a different organization’s name—one that is probably unfamiliar to most people. NACHA is a not-for-profit association [...]

By mguthrie09 | Also posted in social engineering, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Comments (11)
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