It seems like al Qaeda are the terrorists of choice for spammers. Just recently, spammed messages claiming to contain news on Osama bin Laden and the al Qaeda terrorist network were found by Trend Micro researchers. Now here’s another one, and it comes with a video. The spam claims to be from El Comercio –…
Read MoreMalware criminals seem to never run out of tricks. This time they seem to have spun off sensational (but fake) news about the current Iraqi conflict. Advanced Threats Researcher Paul Ferguson recently encountered the following spam mail: Figure 1. Spam purporting to carry news about the latest Al Qaeda offensive. The spam even goes on…
Read MoreCan it be true that even terrorists are hooked on Facebook? And that the Feds are scouring the social networking site looking for them? Storm Worm puppet-masters seem to think so, or they just want everyone to go and find out if it’s true. Senior Threat Researcher David Sancho has recently discovered a spam run…
Read MoreUFOs and alien invasion stories are historical favorites, and they tend to be crowd-pleasers in a weird sort of way. They were big in the 50s and 60s, but even today, a recent pop culture phenomenon like Indiana Jones relies not so much on present doomsday hype as much as on nostalgia. But check out…
Read MoreTrend Micro senior developer TT Tsai discovered a sequel to the fake Trend Micro iClean tool. Our Web Threat Protection (WTP) add-on is being used as bait to download malware. An email message with content seemingly copy-pasted from the WTP page of the Trend Micro Taiwan site advertises a link (Figure 1) where a supposed…
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