What is Storm up to these days, you ask? This time it seems to be sending out the following spammed email message: Curious victims who click on the link are redirected to fraudulent pharmaceutical sites hosted on nodes in the fast-flux Storm botnet. Trend Micro researcher David Sancho believes that the fake online pharmacy, which purports to be Canadian, has been a "customer" of Storm for many months now. The domains involved in this spamming operation seem to be pointing to the same IP, ...

The very first computer virus did not happen on a Windows machine, or a Mac or an Apple II. The first virus did not travel via the Internet or in an email or in a floppy disk. The first virus was not on a minicomputer, nor was it on a mainframe. That's because the first computer virus didn't exist on any computer hardware or software of any kind. It was in a work of fiction. By the late1970's, movies books and television ...

This issue is something that we have blogged about on several occasions recently here on the TrendLabs blog, but sometimes the issue needs to be highlighted and emphasized to articulate the underlying trends that are emerging. How bad is the problem of compromised Web sites/Web servers in The Internet? Epic. Brian Krebs wrote earlier today about how alarming this issue has really become -- and we are seeing the same alarming level of escalation. Why? Insecure Web site implementation and/or no ongoing effort ...

The 2007 Internet weather report is in: It was the Stormiest we have seen. The security arena endured a year of Storm -- the ever-changing pool of malware with a propensity to keep its calendar busy and rain on the AV parade. This was where its seeds were planted and where it was already noted for its enhanced social engineering, plus its multi-component, complex techniques for profit. Its dark clouds started to form in October of 2006 when the WORM_NUWAR family ...

It’s not even Valentine’s Day yet and Storm authors are already spamming out some lovin’. This new wave of Storm is very similar to previous fake eCard variants that feature a link in the spammed email message: The link contained in the said message connects to the following page: Clicking the heart downloads the file WITH_LOVE.EXE, which is detected by Trend Micro as WORM_NUWAR.BK. The Storm malware shows no signs of slowing down as it nears its first anniversary on January 19th. Since ...