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Home   »   Archives for May 2010

The Evolution of KOOBFACE: A Web 2.0 Botnet

  • Posted on:May 25, 2010 at 3:34 am
  • Posted in:Botnets
  • Author:
    Jonell Baltazar (Senior Threat Researcher)
2

The KOOBFACE botnet continuously evolves to keep on generating profit for its perpetrators. The fact that the botnet is still alive shows that the cybercriminals behind it are making a fortune off it. In our effort to conduct research on and to monitor the latest developments made to the KOOBFACE botnet, we have noticed several…

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Phishing Scam Targets Italian Bank

  • Posted on:May 25, 2010 at 12:40 am
  • Posted in:Mobile, Spam
  • Author:
    Sheiree Salvago (Fraud Analyst)
1

Italian bank Banca Popolare di Sondrio has become phishers’ new target with the discovery of a spammed message containing a link to the supposed bank’s Internet banking site, SCRIGNO. As with previous bank-related phishing attempts, clicking the link leads users to a site that looks very much like the legitimate Internet service’s login page. The…

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Mebroot Variant Behaves Like TDSS

  • Posted on:May 21, 2010 at 7:15 pm
  • Posted in:Malware
  • Author:
    Kathleen Notario (Threat Response Engineer)
5

The TDSS malware family in itself is already a big threat to users. Known for its rootkit capabilities, TDSS constantly evolves to include more sophisticated means in order to hide its presence in an affected system. The Mebroot malware family, on the other hand, is noted for inflicting master boot record (MBR) infections. TrendLabsSM engineers…

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New AutoRun Worms Utilize Action Key

  • Posted on:May 18, 2010 at 7:50 pm
  • Posted in:Malware
  • Author:
    Roland Dela Paz (Threat Researcher)
4

Autorun.inf is prevalently used by worms as an autostart technique. Through this file, the worm is able to automatically execute whenever an infected drive is accessed. Over time, users have been able to think of workarounds to manually remove the malware file while preventing it from executing. Some of these are: Using command prompt to…

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Spam Sends Malicious Links to Skype Users

  • Posted on:May 16, 2010 at 6:26 pm
  • Posted in:Malware, Spam
  • Author:
    Gelo Abendan (Technical Communications)
3

TrendLabsSM engineers recently discovered a new Skype spam campaign. The spam arrives as a message from a user’s list of contacts. It contains a list of links with the domain {BLOCKED}4.171.116, most of which are already inactive. One of these links has been found to lead to the download of a malicious file detected by…

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