A worm is making use of MSN messenger to ring in the New Year — by spreading copies of itself, of course. It sends any of the following messages: Hey, Can i put theese on facebook? Hi, have u seen my New Year pics yet? if not, this you gotta see! Hi, this you gotta…
Read MoreA new Trojan locks up machines completely and makes unwitting victims fork over an amount to be able to access their systems again, Sunbelt first reported. Trend Micro detects the said ransomware Trojan as TROJ_RANSOM.B. TrendLabs found that users could download the said malware from the site http://{BLOCKED}s-numericos.info/handlers/get.php?aid=46. Once it is on a system and…
Read MoreWhoa is my Jets, but not only the team, but one of their fansites, and several other unrelated Web sites, too. It leads to a redirect in Estonia, which in turn leads to an exploit server in New York.Go figure. Here is yet another example of criminals taking advantage of, and compromising popular Web sites…
Read MoreAmazing enough, social engineering works — and it manages to dupe ordinary users into clicking on links which masquerade as legitimate content — fake greeting cards, holiday greetings, etc. And people keep on clicking on them. Why should cyber criminals try harder when there is so much “low hanging fruit”? Of course, that’s a rhetorical…
Read MoreThe latest wave of Storm (See previous posts here, here, here and here) has thrown up some interesting new techniques to make analysis even more difficult. HIDDEN LINKS The first is quite clever, specifically targeted at any security company monitoring the Storm botnet. When looking at the latest Web page used by the threat, we…
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