Trend Micro, working with the Organization of American States, has released a study outlining the current state of cybersecurity in Latin America. The joint paper is titled Latin American and Caribbean Cybersecurity Trends and Government Responses. The region has a threat landscape that differs from other parts of the world with key differences in the threats seen, the cybercrime underground, and the ability of governments to respond. (We have also created an infographic that looks at the broader cybercrime underground, which ...
A new attack is spreading via Facebook and several instant messaging applications. Its chief payload is a backdoor - BKDR_LIFTOH.DLF - which allows its attackers to take control of the infected systems. It spreads by using two worms, once of which is a new variant of the rather notorious DORKBOT family.
DORKBOT is known for for spreading via social media and instant messaging applications (e.g.Skype and mIRC etc.), is now found propagating in multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) apps like Quiet Internet Pager and ...
Looking back at the first quarter of the year, the highlight - or, perhaps more appropriately, lowlight - was clear. Popular software packages like Reader/Acrobat, Flash, and Java all had to deal with multiple zero-day exploits in the month - exploits that became widely available in underground circles long before any patches were made available by the vendors.
Having one high-profile incident like that in a quarter is significant in and of itself, but having multiple ones that affect different applications is even ...
Besides the fake Facebook Profile Viewer ruse, we found another Facebook scam that lures users into downloading a fake Adobe Flash Player plugin. We noticed countless feeds pointing to a Facebook page with more than 90 million "likes". For some, this huge number of Facebook likes may be enough for them to check the page out. It also means that the page is quite popular and may lead users into thinking that it is legitimate and harmless.
Figure 1. Spammed Facebook ...
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) opened up the filing season on January 30, 2013 to help taxpayers prepare for the looming April 15 tax deadline. April 15 or colloquially known as Tax Day is when individual income tax returns are due to the federal government. Typical of cybercriminals, they have also prepared their own tax-related scams for taxpayers with scams that aren't a far cry from the usual attempts.
Tax-themed attacks usually arrive in the form of spammed messages claiming to be from the IRS or other government-related ...
