Easter, like any other holiday, will not pass without cyber criminals attempting to exploit the occasion for their own malicious operations. Trend Micro Advanced Threats Researcher Paul Ferguson discovered websites that seem to be related to Easter, except they are malicious and were created to spew malware onto PCs. He adds that there is evidence…
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Technical Communications
The Waledac gang continues to improve on Storm’s tried and tested spamming technique. Fake news and alarming headlines are standard Storm email contents since the botnet’s most notorious variant, NUWAR, started sending out messages warning users of looming nuclear wars. Waledac recently started a new spamming operation using that same old social engineering technique: Figures…
Read MoreTrend Micro detects yet another variant of the infamous DOWNAD family, WORM_DOWNAD.KK. DOWNAD (also known as Conficker) is one of the more destructive outbreak worms in the Web threat era, with numbers matching that of giant botnets Storm and Kraken. WORM_DOWNAD.KK closely follows the trail of WORM_DOWNAD.A and WORM_DOWNAD.AD (which just late last month was…
Read MoreTrend Micro researchers discovered that warez and crack web pages are being used by cybercriminals as download sites for malware related to VIRUT and VIRUX. Searches for serial numbers, cracks, and even antivirus products like Trend Micro yield malcodes that come in the form of executables or self-extracting files. Figure 1. Crack sites are being…
Read MoreXbox Live users, specifically winning players, are being targeted by hackers. Researchers believe that the attacks are done so other Xbox Live users could get back at the players who beat them in a game. A BBC report explains that the tools used in this hacking attack do not target the Xbox Live network but…
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