Thre@t Reply: “Online Shopping” | Part 2 of 2

May 9, 2011 – 9:06 am

In the second of a two-part series with Threat Research Analyst Grayson Milbourne, we answer a question about how to stay safe when shopping online. In the previous video, Grayson discussed how to identify a phishing page. In this episode, he continues his discussion by explaining how to tell whether the site you’re trying to purchase [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Posted in Online shopping threats, phishing, Threat Research, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , | Comments (1)

Thre@t Reply: “Online Shopping” | Part 1 of 2

May 2, 2011 – 1:33 pm

In the latest Thre@t Reply video, Threat Research Analyst Grayson Milbourne answers a reader’s question about how to avoid being phished. The first step is to be able to identify whether you’re on the legitimate Web site you think you are, and if you’re not, what are the telltale signs that indicate you may be [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Posted in Online shopping threats, phishing, spam, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Tags: , , , , , , , | Comments (3)

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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Inane Shenanigans with Worm-Shiv

April 8, 2009 – 3:39 pm

By Andrew Brandt It’s been a long time since I’ve worked on a malware file as singularly obnoxious as Worm-Shiv, a new worm we defined a few weeks ago. There isn’t anything especially technically avant-garde or advanced about the worm, nor was it especially difficult to detect or remove. It just exhibits behavior that, to [...]

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Someone Confick-rolled the Internet

April 1, 2009 – 9:01 am

By Andrew Brandt Well, the big Conficker.c launch day is upon us and…nothing. So far, anyway. Someone should start selling “I blogged about Conficker and all I got was this lousy T-shirt” shirts. Cafepress, are you listening? We’ve been keeping to the back of the room about Conficker, not joining the rising hysteria chorus. It’s not that [...]

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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 [...]

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

Adware Purveyors Panning for Search Gold

March 27, 2009 – 2:30 pm

By Andrew Brandt We know most adware companies are shameless in their pursuit of revenue, but it’s been a while since we’ve seen anything as bizarre (or hilariously bold) as the sales pitch from a relative neophyte to the world of adware, which calls itself SnappyAds. On its homepage, SnappyAds posits the hypothetical glee of [...]

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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: [...]

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

As Web 2.0 explodes, does IT security implode?

March 24, 2009 – 10:00 am

By Jesse McCabe Social media sparked a revolution in how we communicate. From best friends to business owners, more of us every day are using a social networking site to connect with people. Facebook welcomes 700,000 new members daily, and an estimated 4-5 million people are now reading tweets on Twitter. And cybercriminals are having [...]

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