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 | Posted in Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, rootkit, Search engines, Trojans, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (4)

Facebook Spam Leads to Viagra Vendor, Drive-by Download

May 28, 2010 – 10:08 am

By Andrew Brandt Annoying as they are, the spam emails circulating that supposedly come from Facebook don’t merely lead the recipient to one of those so-called Canadian Pharmacy pill-vendor websites. They now come with a bonus: An infection, courtesy of a malicious iframe which attempts a series of exploits against the browser, Adobe Reader, and [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in Downloaders, social engineering, social networks, spam, Stupid malware tricks | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (1)

Facebook Miscreants Dealt a Temporary Smackdown

May 15, 2009 – 9:06 am

By Andrew Brandt After more than a week of harassment by goofballs spamming links, Facebook users can breathe a sigh of relief that, for now, at least one source of trouble has been eradicated. Last week’s worm-like spread of links to the mygener.im domain, and this week’s use of the ponbon.im and hunro.im domains to [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in Phishing Trojans, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Tags: , , , , , | Leave a Comment
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