AutoCAD Adware Trojans Target Techies

July 1, 2009 – 8:52 am

By Andrew Brandt Every once in a while, you hear whispers or rumors about specially-crafted, targeted malware designed to steal a specific piece of data from a particular victim. The data thieves, in these limited cases, tend to be clever, thoughtful, and methodical in both the creation and deployment of their creations. Rarely do malware [...]

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Gamers: Fight the Phishers

June 17, 2009 – 1:01 pm

By Andrew Brandt Last week, I posted a blog item that explained how gamers face a growing security threat in phishing Trojans — software that can steal the passwords to online games, or the license keys for offline games, and pass them along to far-flung criminal groups. We know why organized Internet criminals engage in [...]

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Old Chinese Hack Tool Used for New Tricks

May 14, 2009 – 12:53 pm

By Andrew Brandt This week’s installment of what’s-old-is-new-again in the world of malware comes from one of the many groups making and distributing phishing Trojans in China. Earlier this year, someone discovered a hacktool called ZXArps, and began distributing it in earnest as a payload from another malicious downloader. Unlike most malware we see these days, [...]

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Botnet malware targets MyYearbook

May 1, 2009 – 9:57 am

By Andrew Brandt The team here at Webroot has picked up on a Trojan that appears to target a relatively new social networking site: MyYearbook.com. The site caters to the high-school-age crowd with activities that include various kinds of person-to-person challenges, streaming TV, and a kind of virtual matchmaker service for the tween-and-above set. We’re calling the [...]

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Phishing Trojan Targets Russian Finance Websites

April 13, 2009 – 9:16 am

By Andrew Brandt For a long time, we’ve heard about phishing attacks originating in Russia or eastern Europe that target western banks. There’s nothing surprising there. Latter-day Willie Suttons typically target big US or European banks because, well, that’s where the money is. That’s why I was kind of surprised to stumble across a phishing Trojan [...]

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From Pixels to Phishers

March 31, 2009 – 9:10 am

By Andrew Brandt Over the past year, we’ve seen a huge jump in the number of mass downloader spyware. These small executable files have just one job, and they do it very well: They pull down huge numbers of additional installers, which in turn place a large number of password stealing Trojans, ad-clickers, and still [...]

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New Malware Ruins Firefox

March 25, 2009 – 3:10 am

By Andrew Brandt Late last year, we read all the buzz about ChromeInject, a malicious DLL that was being billed as the first malware specifically targeting Firefox. It was interesting to see that someone built a phishing Trojan for a different browser platform, but ChromeInject was also clearly an early phase in Firefox malware development: [...]

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Stepping up to the Loserbar

March 23, 2009 – 7:00 am

By Andrew Brandt Last year, we at Webroot (as well as many other people) saw a huge spike in two specific types of malware: Rogue antispyware products — the ineffective, deceptive kind — and the various tricks the companies that sell rogues use to trick you into downloading (and eventually buying) their bogus products, something [...]

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