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Home   »   Archives for March 2009

What Will Go DOWNAD on April 1?

  • Posted on:March 30, 2009 at 2:21 am
  • Posted in:Bad Sites, Botnets, Malware
  • Author:
    Trend Micro
16

Much has been said about the DOWNAD worm (a.k.a. Conficker) and its enigmatic payload that will supposedly be unleashed on April 1st. There are two days to go until the moment of truth and the hype isn’t expected to die down. But online threat history tells us that trigger/activation dates of equally hyped malware have…

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Tags: April 1stConfickerDOWNADDownadup

New Malware Cracks Macs

  • Posted on:March 29, 2009 at 12:54 am
  • Posted in:Bad Sites
  • Author:
    Arman Capili (Technical Communications)
12

Malware targeting machines running on Mac OS are quickly becoming quite common, with new variants appearing on a seemingly monthly basis. Just last week, our friends at Intego reported of new variant of the RSPLUG Trojan in the wild. Taking its cue from the routines of the first RSPLUG malware, this latest incarnation no longer…

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Spoofed Delta Airlines Contains Malware

  • Posted on:March 27, 2009 at 4:36 am
  • Posted in:Malware
  • Author:
    Maydalene Salvador (Anti-spam Research Engineer)
1

The Trend Micro Content Security team discovered spoofed email messages that pretend to be from Delta Airlines. The fake email message contains a confirmation numbers of supposed ticket purchase and a ZIP file. Recipients are told that this said file contains details on the travel itinerary. Here’s a screenshot of a spammed message: Figure 1….

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E-cards Used to Advertise Adult Dating Site

  • Posted on:March 24, 2009 at 5:38 am
  • Posted in:Spam
  • Author:
    Aljerro Gabon (Anti-spam Research Engineer)
1

The misuse of legitimate services continue as after recent reports of cybercriminals exploitng the redirecting service TinyURL to slip past spam filters, legitimate e-card services are now being used. We have received email samples that arrive as ecards with the subject header “Regards From Secret Admirer”. The greeting cards were from Regards.com, the web’s largest…

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Data-for-ransom Syndicates Strike Online

  • Posted on:March 24, 2009 at 5:15 am
  • Posted in:Bad Sites
  • Author:
    Jonathan Leopando (Technical Communications)
3

How much is your data worth? A great deal, perhaps, for most of us. Naturally, cybercriminals keep coming up with new ways to exploit this. The new attack? Taking a page out of offline criminal syndicates, now your data is being held for ransom–literally. This latest bit of malware, detected by Trend Micro as TROJ_FAKEALE.BG,…

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