Report: Internet Explorer 9 leads in socially-engineered malware protection

February 14, 2012 – 6:17 pm

By Dancho Danchev According to a newly released report from NSS Labs, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 outperforms competing browsers in protecting against socially engineered malware. More details:

By ddanchev | Posted in Exploits, Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, malware, social engineering, Threat Research | Tags: , , , , , , , | Comments (4)

Inside a clickjacking/likejacking scam distribution platform for Facebook

January 13, 2012 – 9:10 am

by Dancho Danchev How would you convert Facebook users into slaves participating in clickjacking and likejackings scams, next to using them to spamvertise your latest event promotion message? Presumably by using one of the clickjacking/likejacking distribution platforms promising 100 slaves per day that I will profile in this post.

By ddanchev | Posted in malware, social engineering, social networks, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , | Comments (4)

Email hacking for hire going mainstream

January 5, 2012 – 11:25 am

by Dancho Danchev Just how easy is it to hack someone’s email nowadays? Very easy as the process is offered as a managed service within the cybercrime ecosystem. Over the past couple of months, I have been monitoring an increase in managed email hacking services. These services basically offered everyone the ability to claim someone [...]

By ddanchev | Posted in Passwords, phishing, social engineering | Tags: , , , | Comments (7)

‘Tis the season for mobile malware

November 18, 2011 – 11:25 am

By Armando Orozco You’ve heard of the “perfect storm”? Well, there may be one brewing in Android-land. We just wrapped up a study that revealed holiday shopping is about to go mobile—in a big way. Turns out, over two times more shoppers plan to buy gifts on their mobile device this year. Over two times [...]

By Armando Orozco | Posted in Android, Mobile security, Online shopping threats, social engineering | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Leave a Comment

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 mguthrie09 | Posted in social engineering, Targets, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , | 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 | Posted in Android, Mobile security, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Comments (4)

Phishers Want You to Have a Coke and a Drive-by

July 31, 2010 – 12:16 pm

By Andrew Brandt As recently as a few months ago, malware distributors went to what looked like great lengths to craft complex, sophisticated Web pages designed to trick visitors into believing they were visiting a page with an embedded video and — oops! — you need to update your copy of Adobe Flash in order [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in Keyloggers, phishing, social engineering, Threat Research | Tags: , , , , , | Leave a Comment
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