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)

A look inside the SpyEye Trojan admin console

October 24, 2011 – 1:38 pm

By Michael Johnson At Webroot we’ve been researching and chronicling developments with SpyEye since we first saw it in April 2010. This nasty Trojan is the successor to the Zeus Trojan, and it became essentially the main rootkit available for sale after the author of ZeuS left the underground market and sold ZeuS sources to [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Posted in Deep Knowledge, Threat Research | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Comments (1)

A Look Back at the Worst Infections of 2009

December 31, 2009 – 11:29 am

By Andrew Brandt It’s not clear whether the past year will go down in history as a particularly bad year for malware, but one thing is certain: It was bad enough, at times, that fighting infections and cleaning PCs took priority over virtually all other work. Neither home users nor businesses were immune from wave [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in Threat Research | Tags: , , , , , | Comments (5)

Trojan Decodes Captchas Using Stolen Commercial Tools

October 2, 2009 – 12:38 pm

By Andrew Brandt A new Trojan quietly circulating in the wild uses components from a commercial optical character recognition (OCR) application to decode captchas, those jumbled-text images meant to help a website discern human activity from automated bots. The OCR-using captcha breaking tool is just one component of the Trojan. Its main purpose appears to [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in adware, Keyloggers, Phishing Trojans, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Comments (4)

April 2009 wrapup: Thumbdrives under threat

May 1, 2009 – 1:00 pm

By Andrew Brandt We’ve just tallied the top 10 threats Webroot’s consumer products detected during the month of April, and some interesting trends appear to be shaping up. Conficker aside, the first quarter of 2009 seemed to be dominated by worms that spread not only over a network, but to virtually anything you can plug into a USB port [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in adware, Threat Research | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (2)

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 [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in Phishing Trojans, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Comments (1)

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: [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in Firefox, Phishing Trojans, Threat Research | Tags: , , , , , , , | Comments (3)

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 [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in adware, Stupid malware tricks | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Leave a Comment
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