Fake Amazon.com Order Emails Bring a Trojany “Friend”

By Andrew Brandt An ongoing campaign where malware distributors use email spam to deliver dangerous programs to unwitting victims has begun to change its tune, switching the scam to incorporate different brands. In the latest scam, the message appears to be an order confirmation from Amazon.com for the purchase of an expensive consumer electronics item, [...]

Trojan Masquerades as iTunes Gift or Résumé

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, [...]

Getting a “Conract” Doesn’t Make You a Rock Star

By Andrew Brandt If you’re a rock-and-roll star, anticipating the imminent arrival of a new recording contract from your lawyer, you can stop reading this post. If you’re not, I’m sorry to be the one to tell you, it was not your hours of practice playing Rock Band, or singing in the shower, that attracted [...]

Pushu Variant Spams Hotmail, Cracks Audio Captchas

By Andrew Brandt A new version of Trojan-Pushu is doing some interesting stuff to bypass captchas used by Microsoft’s Hotmail/Live.com/MSN webmail services in order to spam people with links to malicious Yahoo Groups pages. The three-year-old spy (known by a variety of other aliases, including Cutwail, Pushdo, Diehard, and Rabbit) has always been, primarily, a [...]

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