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Home   »   Archives for December 2008

Top 8 in ’08

  • Posted on:December 30, 2008 at 9:32 pm
  • Posted in:Bad Sites
  • Author:
    Jake Soriano (Technical Communications)
3

Year-end lists are quite popular at this time of the year — here’s our own top threats in 2008. Most Prolific: Mass Compromises Attacks were targeted to a specific group of users and were targeted at popular Web sites. Diverse Web sites — entertainment, political, online shopping, social networking — were all used to spread…

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Malevolent Social Networking: Now on Friendster

  • Posted on:December 28, 2008 at 8:56 pm
  • Posted in:Malware
  • Author:
    Loucif Kharouni (Senior Threat Researcher)
2

The holidays will be a time for refreshing connections, both in the real world, and online. Sadly, a ZLOB variant is being used by cyber criminals in this recent predictable spin on the malware social networking scene. Users of Friendster, a social networking site hugely popular in Asia, may have recently received an email via…

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Tags: Adobe Flash PlayerBeBoBloglinesFacebookFriendsterGeocitiesHi5social engineeringsocial networking site

Merry Malware Greetings Flooding Inboxes

  • Posted on:December 26, 2008 at 10:42 am
  • Posted in:Bad Sites
  • Author:
    Argie Gallego (Anti-spam Research Engineer)
3

A significant amount of e-card spam has flooded inboxes recently, taking advantage of the upcoming holiday season. Spam mails contain holiday greetings and a short message informing users that they have received an e-card from someone. Also in the email is an embedded URL link where the recipient can view or claim their e-card. Other…

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Tags: Add new tagChristmaseCardSpam

Yet Another Digital Picture Frame Malware Incident

  • Posted on:December 26, 2008 at 10:38 am
  • Posted in:Bad Sites
  • Author:
    Bernadette Irinco (Technical Communications)
1

Advanced Threats Researcher Paul Ferguson alerted us today to a report that Amazon.com and Samsung have informed their consumers regarding the discovery of a Sality worm on the product’s installer disc (Samsung Frame Manager XP version 1.08). The infected installer disc is needed to use their product, the Samsung SPF-85H 8-Inch Digital Photo Frames w/…

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Tags: Amazondigital photo framesiPodMcDonald'sSamsung

Two Credit Unions Phished

  • Posted on:December 22, 2008 at 2:45 pm
  • Posted in:Mobile
  • Author:
    Verna Sagum (Fraud Analyst)
0

The Trend Micro Content Security Team discovered two phishing URLs just within hours of each other that use legitimate credit unions to trick unknowing users into giving out confidential information. Here’s a screenshot of a page that spoofs the O Bee Credit Union: Figure 1. Sample phishing page. The page is hosted in the URL…

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Tags: Mobile
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