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Home   »   Archives for July 2009

Sly Spam Run Targets Hotmail Users

  • Posted on:July 30, 2009 at 7:20 pm
  • Posted in:Malware, Spam
  • Author:
    JM Hipolito (Technical Communications)
9

Hotmail users need to be wary about a malicious spam run that specifically targets users of the said webmail. Senior Security Analyst Rik Ferguson reports that spam messages arrive with text indicating that it has file attachments that are image files with the JPEG format. In truth however, the file names of attachments are actually…

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Rogue DNS Targets Popular Russian Social Networking Site

  • Posted on:July 29, 2009 at 11:45 pm
  • Posted in:Bad Sites, Malware
  • Author:
    Feike Hacquebord (Senior Threat Researcher)
6

Today Trend Micro researchers discovered a spoofed (fake) version of the popular Russian social networking site vkontakte.ru. Visitors of the spoofed site risk exposing their personal login credentials to a third party. Vkontakte.ru is roughly the Russian equivalent of Facebook and is very popular in Russian-speaking countries. According to the site itself it has more…

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TrendWatch Relaunch

  • Posted on:July 29, 2009 at 6:20 am
  • Posted in:Bad Sites
  • Author:
    Det Caraig (Technical Communications)
0

Trend Micro recently relaunched TrendWatch, its dedicated threat center, to keep users better informed and abreast of the latest threats! As with the website’s earlier launch last year, this year’s relaunch aims to continue to make more intuitive information about all threats as accessible as possible to all our site visitors. The site will continue…

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Microsoft Releases Out-of-Cycle Patches For Exploits

  • Posted on:July 29, 2009 at 6:10 am
  • Posted in:Vulnerabilities
  • Author:
    Jonathan Leopando (Technical Communications)
2

It’s not the second Tuesday of the month, but Microsoft has rushed out several patches for Internet Explorer. These are related to the zero-day exploit that was revealed earlier in the month; however it appears that the underlying vulnerability was not fixed; independent security researchers have discovered the underlying flaw and are ready to release…

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Malicious Twitter Posts Get More Personal

  • Posted on:July 27, 2009 at 10:19 am
  • Posted in:Malware, Spam
  • Author:
    JM Hipolito (Technical Communications)
12

One recent report by Rik Ferguson said that malicious Twitter posts are getting dangerously more customized, increasing the possibility of users getting hooked into malicious schemes. A Twitter spambot is said to have been used in launching this recent attack. The spambot creates Twitter accounts and fashions them to appear as legitimate accounts by posting…

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