Outdated Operating System? This BlackHole Exploit Kit has you in its sights

October 31, 2011 – 11:50 am

By Mike Johnson Several weeks back, I was presented with a group of snapshots from an active BlackHole Exploit Kit 1.2 Control Panel. As with other toolkits I’ve seen in the wild, this one has all the makings of some real bad medicine. The authors have yet again gone to the trouble of making this toolkit incredibly easy [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Posted in Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, rootkit, Search engines, Trojans, 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)

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

Keylogger Poses as Document from Spain’s Central Bank

June 21, 2010 – 2:06 pm

By Andrew Brandt An attempt to push down the Trojan-Backdoor-Zbot password thief to Spaniards may signal a new wave of attacks by a crew of attackers who spent the better part of 2009 trying to convince gullible Internet users in different countries to download and execute Zbot installers poorly disguised as transaction records or other [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in Keyloggers, Phishing Trojans, social engineering, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Comments (2)

“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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