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…
Read MoreParts 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…
Read MoreHolidays 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…
Read MoreTrend 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…
Read MoreIn 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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