Category Archives: Internet Explorer

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 [...]

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ROTW: “Total Security” and Antivirus IS

April 25, 2011 – 9:00 am

By Brenden Vaughan and Andrew Brandt This week, our support and advanced malware removal (AMR) team did not have a lot of new data to report about rogue security products. The most commonly encountered infection continues to be one of the rogues we reported about last week. While we may refer to it as XP [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Also posted in Advanced Malware Removal, hijack search results, mal-effects, Rogue Security Products, social engineering, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Comments (2)

Shorty Worm Spams Links, Hijacks Browsers

March 4, 2011 – 9:51 am

By Andrew Brandt & Grayson Milbourne A novel worm we’re calling Worm-IM-Shorty appears to be winding its way through Facebook and some instant messaging services, with its come-on disguised as a link to a photograph hosted elsewhere. But when recipients click the link, they receive an executable Trojan instead, dressed up with the name and [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Also posted in adware, Backdoors, Botnet activity, Downloaders, Firefox, hijack search results, Search engines, social engineering, spam, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Comments (1)

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 Lisa Bongiovanni | Also posted in hijack search results, Passwords, phishing, Phishing Trojans, 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 [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Also posted in Backdoors, Blackhat SEO, Botnet activity, Destructive behavior, Enterprises, Firefox, Gaming threats, Keyloggers, Online shopping threats, Passwords, phishing, Phishing Trojans, Rogue Security Products, social engineering, social networks, spam, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research, Trojans, Website owners | Comments (1)

Christmas IE Zero-Day Thwarted. Ho ho ho.

December 23, 2010 – 1:32 pm

By Andrew Brandt Yesterday, two different 0 day exploits against Internet Explorer were published, just in time for the holidays when most of you (and many security researchers as well) are taking time off from work. The exploit, named CVE-2010-3971, is fairly serious, affecting the latest builds of IE versions 6 through 8. Well, I’d [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Also posted in Destructive behavior, Enterprises, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Comments (2)

Fake Firefox Update is a Social Engineering Triple Fail

December 21, 2010 – 4:49 pm

By Andrew Brandt Where’s the work ethic, malware geniuses? If this latest example of shenanigans is the best you can deliver, you’re not even trying to generate convincing scams — or even something that makes sense — anymore. One of our Threat Research Analysts pointed me to a Web page hosting a fake update program [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Also posted in Blackhat SEO, Downloaders, Firefox, social engineering, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Comments (5)

Patchy Phisher Forces Firefox to Forego Forgetting Passwords

October 6, 2010 – 3:47 pm

By Andrew Brandt Every browser can, at the user’s discretion, be set up to remember passwords. In general, Webroot advises most users not to set the browser to store login credentials, because they’re so easily extracted by password-stealing Trojans like Zbot. In Firefox, for example, you can click Tools, Options, then open the Security tab, [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Also posted in Backdoors, Firefox, Keyloggers, phishing, Phishing Trojans, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Comments (21)

Five Reasons You Should Always “Stop. Think. Connect.”

October 4, 2010 – 9:27 am

By Andrew Brandt Today’s the official kickoff for National Cyber Security Awareness Month, and the organizations supporting the event, including the National Cyber Security Alliance, the Anti-Phishing Working Group, and dozens of corporate citizens including Webroot, want you to protect your computer and your personal information. So they’ve come up with a three word campaign [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Also posted in adware, Blackhat SEO, Botnet activity, Destructive behavior, Firefox, Gaming threats, Keyloggers, malware, Online shopping threats, Passwords, phishing, Rogue Security Products, Search engines, social engineering, social networks, spam, Stupid malware tricks, Trojans, Website owners | Comments (19)
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