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Home   »   Archives for September 2009

Tropical Storm Leads to FAKEAV

  • Posted on:September 29, 2009 at 7:43 am
  • Posted in:Bad Sites, Malware
  • Author:
    Jessa De La Torre (Senior Threat Researcher)
5

Cybercriminals leveraged on the tropical storm, Ondoy (International name: Ketsana) that hit the Philippines and killed around 140 people. Senior Threat Analyst Joseph Pacamarra found several malicious sites that appeared each time the users search the strings, “manila flood,” “Ondoy Typhoon,” and “Philippines Flood,” among others. The said sites emerged as one of the top…

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Several Compromised Thai Sites Serve Malware

  • Posted on:September 28, 2009 at 6:01 am
  • Posted in:Bad Sites, Malware
  • Author:
    Bernadette Irinco (Technical Communications)
3

Trend Micro researchers discovered another wave of mass compromised websites involving several Thai government agencies’ sites. One of the compromised sites, the Thai Police site, was injected with malicious codes to redirect users to several malicious sites. One of the landing pages, http://{BLOCKED}t.ru/ip/bchqu1.exe served a downloader detected by Trend Micro as TROJ_DLOADER.DNG. This Trojan downloader…

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Fake Windows Live Malware Spreads via Email

  • Posted on:September 28, 2009 at 6:00 am
  • Posted in:Malware, Spam
  • Author:
    Joey Costoya
8

Trend Micro threat analysts recently snagged an email pushing a bogus Windows Live Messenger residing in http://{BLOCKED}s-live-msn.serveftp.com/Windows_Live_9.0_beta.exe (detected as WORM_VB.PAB). The .EXE file is, of course, not the “real” Windows Live Messenger but a bot that reports to an IRC-based C&C with the following details about the infected system: Server: {BLOCKED}s.rvsanmiguel.com Server IP: {BLOCKED}.{BLOCKED}.110.141 Port:…

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Bogus Sponsored Link Leads to FAKEAV

  • Posted on:September 24, 2009 at 3:30 am
  • Posted in:Bad Sites, Malware
  • Author:
    Erika Mendoza (Threat Response Engineer)
6

Apart from SEO poisoning, cybercriminals have found another avenue to proliferate FAKEAV malware—bogus sponsored links (sitio patrocinados in Spanish). Just recently, Trend Micro researchers were alerted to malicious search engine ads that appeared in Microsoft’s Bing and AltaVista, among others, when a user searches the string “malwarebytes.” (Malwarebytes is a free antivirus product, but of course, not a…

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How to Maximize the Malware Protection of Your Removable Drives

  • Posted on:September 22, 2009 at 2:45 am
  • Posted in:Malware
  • Author:
    Christian Potencia (Threat Response Engineer)
19

Removable drives are one of the most common infection vectors for malware today. Worms propagate via these vectors to proliferate their payload and ultimately, infect more users. Users need to perform some countermeasures to secure their systems. One way of doing this is to protect removable drives against worms using the Autorun feature. One popular…

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