‘Koobfox’ variant digs for Firefox cookies

September 3, 2009 – 3:34 pm

By Andrew Brandt A new variant of the Koobface worm started striking out this week, with a twist: Where the older Koobface would steal and use the cookies saved by Internet Explorer which store social network logins in order to spread its infectious messages in the victim’s name, this new variant is pulling down a [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Posted in Phishing Trojans, social engineering, social networks, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Tags: , , , , | Comments (8)

Koobface: Not Just for Facebook, Anymore

August 14, 2009 – 11:54 am

By Andrew Brandt The latest generation of Koobface targets its particularly effective brand of social engineering at more social networks than ever. As the worm has evolved, we’ve seen it grow to encompass a pantheon of services, targeting more than just the widely publicized Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter, but a host of other Web sites [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Posted in Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (12)

Jackson/Fawcett Malware is Extortion-ware

June 26, 2009 – 12:12 pm

By Andrew Brandt As I reported yesterday, searches for information about the deaths of Michael Jackson or Farrah Fawcett were turning up links to malware. This came as no surprise to anyone, though the speed with which the links spread was astonishing: Within minutes of the first confirmation that Jackson had succumbed to a heart [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Posted in adware, Blackhat SEO, Firefox, social engineering, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Tags: , , , , , , , | Comments (4)

Drive-by Downloads Still Pack a Punch – If You Click

June 24, 2009 – 9:25 am

By Andrew Brandt In the course of surfing around, looking for ways to get infected, I stumbled upon a site that offers visitors downloads of key generators, cracks, and other ways to circumvent the process used by most legitimate software companies to prevent people who didn’t pay for the software from registering or using it. [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Posted in Phishing Trojans, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Tags: , , , , , , , | Comments (2)
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