Category Archives: Uncategorized

“Android Malware” – Thre@t Reply(video)

December 12, 2011 – 1:30 pm

By Armando Orozco Are Android phones susceptible to Trojans and other viruses just like computer? How can you make sure your phone doesn’t become infected and if it does, what can you do? Webroot mobile threat research analyst, Armando Orozco answers this question that was asked to our Webroot Threat Research team via Twitter.

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Also posted in Android, Mobile security, Threat Research | Leave a Comment

For your eyes only (please)

December 1, 2011 – 10:15 am

By the Webroot Threat Team Have you ever had the queasy experience of sending a message to someone that you’d rather not have anyone else see, and then hoping that it won’t get passed along? A new system developed by Internet law and security researchers aims to solve the problem, with a light-handed touch. The [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Also posted in spam | Comments (1)

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 Enterprises, phishing, Phishing Trojans, social engineering, spam | Comments (1)

This blackhole exploit kit gives you Windows Media Player and a whole lot more

November 11, 2011 – 10:11 am

By Mike Johnson As a follow-up to the Blackhole Exploit posting, I thought I would share one aspect of my job that I truely enjoy: Discovery. While investigating some active urls being served up via a blackhole kit, I noticed something quite odd, as I would end up on sites that had malicious code injected into their webpages. Once [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Also posted in Destructive behavior, Exploits, Internet Explorer, malware, Threat Research | Comments (4)

Will you take Facebook’s candy?

November 9, 2011 – 2:50 pm

By the Webroot Threat Team It’s a creepy treat, with a serious underlying message. The latest viral website uses a horror movie format to show you just how much the average Facebook application can find out about you. TakeThisLollipop, which has already received 1.7 million ‘Likes’ on Facebook, uses the social network’s application authentication scheme [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Also posted in social engineering, Targets | Comments (6)

I don’t think it means what you think it means…

November 4, 2011 – 3:07 pm

Websites Hosting Android Trojans   By Armando Orozco and  Nathan Collier Rogue Android apps are making their way into alternative markets. Yes, we’ve seen some malicious apps trickle through and they can be elusive. But we’re now seeing markets that are only hosting malware. These rogues are of the premium rate SMS variety and request [...]

By Armando Orozco | Also posted in Android, Mobile security | Comments (6)

Outdated Operating System? This BlackHole Exploit Kit has you in its sights

October 31, 2011 – 11:50 am

By Mike Johnson Several weeks back, I was presented with a group of snapshots from an active BlackHole Exploit Kit 1.2 Control Panel. As with other toolkits I’ve seen in the wild, this one has all the makings of some real bad medicine. The authors have yet again gone to the trouble of making this toolkit incredibly easy [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Also posted in Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, rootkit, Search engines, Trojans | Comments (4)

Non-executable malicious files and code – Thre@t Reply

October 7, 2011 – 9:36 am

By Nathan Collier .exe, PHP, HTML, and the list goes on. How many different kinds of files and code can potentially infect your PC? Webroot threat research analyst Nathan Collier explains a few of the the types of potentially dangerous files, other than the common executable (.exe) that can be found on a Windows PC [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Also posted in malware, Threat Research | Comments (2)

CloudOnomics

September 21, 2011 – 8:00 pm

By Ian Moyse Moore’s Law back in 1965 predicted silicon power would double every two years. But what its creator, Gordon E. Moore, couldn’t have predicted was the dramatic economies of scale the cloud would eventually bring to all of our lives. For one, it’s helped lead to a drop in price for essentials like [...]

By Marco Giuliani | Comments (2)

Mebromi: the first BIOS rootkit in the wild

September 13, 2011 – 6:44 am

By Marco Giuliani In the past few weeks a Chinese security company called Qihoo 360 blogged about a new BIOS rootkit hitting Chinese computers. This turned to be a very interesting discovery as it appears to be the first real malware targeting system BIOS since a well-known proof of concept called IceLord in 2007. The malware is called [...]

By Marco Giuliani | Comments (34)
Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.

Join 609 other followers