At 4:18 PM PST yesterday, Advanced Threats Researcher Ivan Macalintal discovered a spy-phishing scheme targeting the Fortune 500 company and 4th largest banking chain in the US, Wachovia Bank (NYSE: WB). This attack ends in the execution of a rootkit detected as TROJ_ROOTKIT.FX, which is a file that hides files and processes, allowing malicious attacks…
Read MoreA phishing email uses a novel-sounding concept that can sound alarming enough to get unsuspecting users to click on the available links and land themselves in danger. Trend Micro Content Security team recently came across a Bank of America phishing site which shows users that their online accounts are recently “logged on from an unregistered…
Read MorePhishing has evolved into a variety of forms. Phishers are always trying out new tricks to try to evade anti-phishing filters that are continually updated to recognize the latest phishing techniques. It thus seems strange for us to see this phishing attempt targeting users of two banking Web sites in North America: The first email…
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