We often associate Halloween with pumpkins and costumes but for cybercriminals it’s merely another avenue to exploit, steal, and trick users into giving away their personal identities. Treats are fun but we all need to be on the lookout for the sneaky and tricky ways cybercriminals slither into our computers.  Below are the TrendLabs, top 7 scariest threats that might be knocking on your door: Tailor-made ZBOT spam makes its way to employees’ mailboxes The Zeus botnet is well-known for e-banking attacks that ...

Microsoft’s new OS, Windows 7, was made available to the general public earlier today. To say that this was eagerly anticipated is an understatement, however, as in the United Kingdom, pre-orders on Amazon for copies exceeded both the last book of the Harry Potter series as well as the Nintendo Wii. This made it the biggest grossing pre-ordered item in the history of the online retailer's British site. Trend Micro Senior Threat Researcher David Sancho had this to say about the new OS: Microsoft has been ...

A quick heads-up to all users of Microsoft's Windows Live Hotmail email service: a list of at least 10,000 user names (and the corresponding passwords) of the second-largest email service after Yahoo has been leaked online. The list first appeared on the Pastebin website, which is normally used by programmers to share source code. Microsoft has confirmed that the list is authentic. They have also said that their databases were not actually breached; if this is correct this means the list ...

Typhoon Ketsana is currently leaving a trail of destruction, first in the Philippines, and now in Vietnam. Amidst the disaster, we see a glimmer of hope, one where netizens actively participate to make a difference, empowered by the social Web. Citizen Journalism   In the Philippines, residents with camera phones began taking pictures and videos of events as they happened. Videos were uploaded to YouTube, and were then linked to Facebook. In addition, pictures uploaded in Flickr or Facebook were linked as well. These photos ...

People who get their regular dose of news from the New York Times website were recently told to be careful when browsing through the said site as malicious advertisements—also known as “malvertisements”—are found on its pages and are displaying pop-up windows that falsely report malware infections on their systems. As reported in detail by Trend Micro researcher Rik Ferguson in the Counter Measures blog, the New York Times issued warnings through both Twitter and its website's front page about malvertisements that trigger the ...