Zbot Desperately Seeking AIM Users

January 21, 2010 – 2:54 pm

By Andrew Brandt The Zbot keylogger campaign-of-the-month targets users of AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) with a message that claims to be an update notification for users of the instant messaging client application. Users unfortunate enough to click through the link in the email message to download what they think is something called “aimupdate_7.1.6.475.exe” will be [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in Keyloggers, social engineering, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (5)

Facebook Phishing Campaign Wants Your Passwords

November 2, 2009 – 1:22 pm

By Andrew Brandt Yet another new phishing campaign targeting users of Facebook struck over the Halloween holiday weekend. After scammers began filling inboxes last week with bogus “Facebook update” attachments, this weekend we saw a different group at work. Employing URLs with random domain names registered under the .eu top-level domain, the campaign looks similar to [...]

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Lazy Phishers Just Email the Phishing Web Page to You, Now

October 26, 2009 – 7:44 pm

By Andrew Brandt It was a particularly busy weekend for spammers, especially the creepy, evil ones who are trying to steal information (as opposed to the merely scungy pill vendors and their ilk). Webroot’s Threat Research team has recently seen a glut of phishing messages which, like most, purport to come from banks and ask you to update [...]

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Outlook “Patch” Spam Leads to Keyloggers

October 21, 2009 – 1:25 pm

By Andrew Brandt Hot on the heels of the spam campaigns involving emails which purport to come from the IRS, HMRC, and from your IT department comes another round of fake “notification” spam emails — this time, warning users to download and install a patch for the Outlook and Outlook Express email clients. Like the [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in Keyloggers, social engineering, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Tags: , , , , , | Comments (13)

IRS Tax “Warning” Fraud Crosses the Pond, Targets the UK

October 14, 2009 – 12:01 am

By Andrew Brandt For several months, we’ve been seeing spam and phishing Web sites which purport to be IRS notifications of delinquent non-payment of income taxes. Who can blame the fraudsters — almost no three letter agency of the US government inspires more dread and fear than good old Internal Revenue. In the UK, the [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in Keyloggers, Phishing Trojans, social engineering, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Tags: , , , , | Comments (16)

“Shipping Confirmation” Malware on the Rise

September 15, 2009 – 4:27 pm

By Andrew Brandt As autumn approaches, the world typically sees an increase in the number of online shopping trips, as people take advantage of bargains from late-year sales, and prepare for various holidays. And, right on cue, we’re also seeing an increase in the number of Trojans distributed in the guise of “shipping confirmation” email [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in Keyloggers, social networks, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Comments (7)
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