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Home   »   Archives for January 2009

Embassy Site Attack Reveals Other Compromised Sites

  • Posted on:January 29, 2009 at 4:31 am
  • Posted in:Bad Sites
  • Author:
    JM Hipolito (Technical Communications)
6

The purpose of embassies as a diplomatic channel is continuously being tainted by cybercriminals. Initially reported by researcher Dancho Danchev in his blog, the Indian Embassy in Spain was found serving malware through an injected malicious iFrame. The said malicious injected iFrame leads to a file detected by Trend Micro as BKDR_TDSS.CG. Trend Micro researchers…

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Tags: Indian Embassymass compromiseSEO poisoning

Just Got Unlucky: Part 3

  • Posted on:January 27, 2009 at 5:18 am
  • Posted in:Spam
  • Author:
    Argie Gallego (Anti-spam Research Engineer)
0

Parts 1 and 2 happened in succession in November two years ago: the open redirection services of Google and AOL were used by spammers to trick unknowing email recipients into clicking links which led them to different websites. This sequel’s celebrity is Yahoo!: Figures 1 & 2. Sample spam. The above sample spammed messages contain…

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Tags: open redirectionSpamValentine's DayYAhoo

WALEDAC Loves (to Spam) You!

  • Posted on:January 26, 2009 at 5:30 am
  • Posted in:Bad Sites
  • Author:
    Florabel Baetiong (Anti-spam Research Engineer)
1

Holidays and popular annual events as a social engineering tool in spamming is a signature Storm technique. The following spammed email message should then cement WALEDAC’s association with the said bot giant. Figure 1. Spammed Valentine’s greetings. These messages flood inboxes weeks before Valentine’s day, also typical of previous Storm spam runs. Clicking on the…

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Mali Goverment Site Compromised, Used for Phishing

  • Posted on:January 25, 2009 at 10:19 am
  • Posted in:Mobile
  • Author:
    Aivee Cortez (Fraud Analyst)
1

Trend Micro researchers last week discovered yet another government web compromise — this time using a domain owned by the Republic of Mali government. The attack strategy here is not even that notable, given that we continue to see websites of all kinds being victimized by cyber criminals for all sorts of malicious means. The…

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Tags: MaliMobile

Fake Brazilian Government Site Leads to Info-Stealers

  • Posted on:January 25, 2009 at 10:09 am
  • Posted in:Bad Sites
  • Author:
    Aivee Cortez (Fraud Analyst)
1

In this economic crisis, people tend to trust the government for possible employment opportunities. Unfortunately, cyber criminals know this and use these circumstances by attacking job-related government sites. The Ministerio do Trabalho e Emprego, or the Ministry of Labor and Employment in Brazil is being mimicked by the cybercriminals to distribute malicious files: Figure 1….

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