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Anatomy of a Rock - F-Secure Weblog : News from the Lab

Anatomy of a Rock Posted by Mikko @ 10:47 GMT | Comment (1) Let's have a closer look at a typical rock phish. Here's the mail, sent yesterday: The link points to paypal-user-confirm.com/acc/login.php. The domain was registered a week ago with bogus whois data and (we guess) a stolen credit card...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 03-03-2008
Filed under: Spam\Phishing, Cybercrime
Olympic Fans May Fall for Unpatched MS Excel Vuln | TrendLabs | Malware Blog - by Trend Micro

Olympic Fans May Fall for Unpatched MS Excel Vuln March 9th, 2008 by Joseph Cepe XLS files specially designed to exploit a currently unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft Excel (identified as CVE-2008-0081 ) are reportedly being sent as email attachments in the wild. The attachments, which arrive either...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 03-10-2008
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, Patch Management, Microsoft Office, Spam\Phishing, Cybercrime
404 toolkit used by Vundo creators | TrendLabs | Malware Blog - by Trend Micro

404 toolkit used by Vundo creators March 9th, 2008 by Loucif Kharouni While checking my personal spam emails received yesterday, I got interested on a certain email asking the user to view adult pictures by clicking on the following picture: Once you click on the picture, it is linked to hxxp://{BLOCKED...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 03-10-2008
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, Internet Hacks, Spam\Phishing, Cybercrime
Dexter Union Inc - F-Secure Weblog : News from the Lab

Dexter Union Inc Posted by Mikko @ 10:00 GMT | Comments We saw this email being spammed a week ago: Hey, great opportunity for growth? High salary? Sounds good. Maybe I should apply. So I did. Here's what I wrote back (do note that I used my normal F-Secure work address for this): Well, I got a reply...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 03-12-2008
Filed under: Spam\Phishing, Cybercrime
Symantec Security Response Weblog: Trojan.Trafbrush: Providing Click Fraud Services to Affiliates

Trojan.Trafbrush: Providing Click Fraud Services to Affiliates My colleague, Takashi Katsuki, posted a blog that describes how Trojan.Farfli provides a service to affiliates, which allows them to increase the number of hits for an affiliate’s tracker. Recently I came across another Trojan, which provides...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 03-12-2008
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, Internet Hacks, Spam\Phishing, Cybercrime
Symantec Security Response Weblog: Your Friendly Password Archiver

Your Friendly Password Archiver We all know that you should back up your data periodically if you don't want to lose it in the case of an incident. This is not as trivial as it used to be. You might have some information stored remotely in online services. Most likely you will have an online email...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 03-13-2008
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, Internet Hacks, Spam\Phishing, Cybercrime
Symantec Security Response Weblog: Spammers Exploit the Tax Season

I got one similar to these in my Inbox this morning. Spammers Exploit the Tax Season As reported in the February State of Spam report , we have observed spammers disguising themselves as the IRS and dangling an offer of a tax refund to unwitting recipients. That is, a refund made available once you input...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 03-17-2008
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, Spam\Phishing, Cybercrime
King Soloway Sings Guilty | TrendLabs | Malware Blog - by Trend Micro

King Soloway Sings Guilty March 18th, 2008 by JM Hipolito The man who has reportedly raked in $300,000 from spam operations pleaded guilty to charges of fraud and tax evasion last friday, PC World reports . Aptly dubbed “King of Spam” by authorities, Robert Soloway was arrested in May 2007 by the US...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 03-19-2008
Filed under: In the News, Spam\Phishing, Cybercrime
Targeted malware attacks against pro-Tibet groups - F-Secure Weblog : News from the Lab

Targeted malware attacks against pro-Tibet groups Posted by lab @ 16:24 GMT | postCount('00001406'); Comment (1) There's unrest on the streets of Tibet - clashes between Tibetians and the Chinese military. Quoting Wikipedia, "Tibet was once an independent kingdom, which later became...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 03-21-2008
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, Spam\Phishing, Cybercrime
Better Business Bureau Phish with Trojan Downloader | TrendLabs | Malware Blog - by Trend Micro

Better Business Bureau Phish with Trojan Downloader March 23rd, 2008 by Fatima Bancod The Better Business Bureau (BBB) is the target of a new phishing scam, in which a user is asked to download a rogue ActiveX installer upon visiting the Web site www.national-bbb.com/complaints/ViewReport.php?case=509134429&biz...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 03-24-2008
Filed under: Internet Applications, Spam\Phishing, Cybercrime

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