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Bogus "New Moon" Torrents Lead to Malware

By Andrew Brandt A week since the file-sharing clearinghouse Mininova changed its business model and deleted links to copyrighted material being shared over the peer-to-peer Bittorrent network, malwar… more →

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Bogus "New Moon" Torrents Lead to Malware

Andrew Brandt wrote 1 day ago: By Andrew Brandt A week since the file-sharing clearinghouse Mininova changed its business model and … more →

Tags: Phishing Trojans, Social Engineering, Stupid malware tricks, 100% checked by Anti Virus, File Type: License-Installer, Install free codec to Watch the Video., License.v.3.Setup.exe, new moon, Trojan-Agent-TDSS

Fake Zbot Site Poses as CDC H1N1 Flu Vaccine Info — 2 comments

Andrew Brandt wrote 4 days ago: By Andrew Brandt The newest victim of the faux-Web-sites-posing-as-government-pages scam is the Cent … more →

Tags: Phishing Trojans, Social Engineering, Stupid malware tricks, CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Download Archive (130Kb), flu, h1n1, online.cdc.gov

Fakealerts Target Black Friday Online Shoppers — 1 comment

Andrew Brandt wrote 1 week ago: By Andrew Brandt Now that the turkey and pumpkin pie has settled, and everyone’s gotten a good … more →

Tags: Online shopping threats, Rogue Security Products, Social Engineering, Stupid malware tricks, Black Friday, cyber monday, fake antivirus alerts, fakealerts, malicious search results

Fakealerts: Building a Better Mousetrap

Andrew Brandt wrote 1 week ago: By Andrew Brandt In general, the use of fakealerts – those bogus warnings that look like your … more →

Tags: Adware, Rogue Security Products, Social Engineering, Stupid malware tricks, Adware-Sabotch, antivirus 2010, FakeAlert, Rogue-Antivirus, rogue security product

Internet Security Trends – A Look Back at 2009, A Look Ahead to 2010

gerhardeschelbeck wrote 2 weeks ago: By Gerhard Eschelbeck It’s been a busy year in Internet security — cybercriminals were c … more →

Tags: Enterprise Security, Internet security industry, Cloud Computing, Koobface, Phishing, Social Networks, url filtering

Faux "Verified By Visa" Phishing Scam Targets Holiday Shoppers

Andrew Brandt wrote 2 weeks ago: By Andrew Brandt When you sign up for a credit card — even with one of those pre-approved appl … more →

Tags: Social Engineering, 00034-5432-PSI-54256, Holiday Shopping, Phishing, vbv phishing, Verified by Visa, visa

Phishing Scheme Targets E-Payment Rule-Maker, NACHA — 2 comments

Andrew Brandt wrote 3 weeks ago: By Andrew Brandt Coming on the heels of similar fraud schemes that targeted victims using the names … more →

Tags: Phishing Trojans, Social Engineering, Stupid malware tricks, ach, ACH transaction, NACHA, Phishing, The Electronic Payments Association (NACHA), Trojan-Backdoor-Zbot

Facebook Phishing Campaign Wants Your Passwords — 3 comments

Andrew Brandt wrote 1 month ago: By Andrew Brandt Yet another new phishing campaign targeting users of Facebook struck over the Hallo … more →

Tags: Social Engineering, Social Networks, facebook, Phishing, Progdav, Trojan-Backdoor-Progdav

Lazy Phishers Just Email the Phishing Web Page to You, Now — 3 comments

Andrew Brandt wrote 1 month ago: By Andrew Brandt It was a particularly busy weekend for spammers, especially the creepy, evil ones w … more →

Tags: Phishing Trojans, Social Engineering, Stupid malware tricks, Bank of America, FDIC, FDIC has officially named the bank, FDIC phishing, Hallmark, HMRC

Outlook "Patch" Spam Leads to Keyloggers — 4 comments

Andrew Brandt wrote 1 month ago: By Andrew Brandt Hot on the heels of the spam campaigns involving emails which purport to come from … more →

Tags: keyloggers, Social Engineering, Stupid malware tricks, KB910737, officexp-KB910737-FullFile-ENU.exe, Progdav, Trojan-Backdoor-Progdav, Update for Microsoft Outlook / Outlook Express (KB91073, ZBot

Spammers Use Bing to Bypass Filters, Spam Bad Links — 5 comments

Andrew Brandt wrote 1 month ago: By Andrew Brandt Word came down from our Threat Research team this morning about a new spam campaign … more →

Tags: Social Engineering, Stupid malware tricks, Bing!, Microsoft, Redirect, Spam

Trojan Uses Commercial Firewall to Block AV Updates — 1 comment

Andrew Brandt wrote 1 month ago: By Andrew Brandt Purveyors of rogue security products continue to bulk up their arsenal of stupid tr … more →

Tags: Rogue Security Products, Stupid malware tricks, antivirus 2010, Firewall, Interrupdate, Liften, Trojan-Netfilter, Trojan.Interrupdate, Win32.Liften

IRS Tax "Warning" Fraud Crosses the Pond, Targets the UK — 5 comments

Andrew Brandt wrote 1 month ago: By Andrew Brandt For several months, we’ve been seeing spam and phishing Web sites which purpo … more →

Tags: keyloggers, Phishing Trojans, Social Engineering, Stupid malware tricks, HMRC, I.R.S., Phishing, Trojan-Backdoor-Progdav, ZBot

No Search is Sacred: Fakealerts Flood the Net — 7 comments

Andrew Brandt wrote 1 month ago: By Andrew Brandt Search engines appear to be no longer in control of the search results they display … more →

Tags: Rogue Security Products, Social Engineering, Stupid malware tricks, antivirus 2010, google manipulation, Rogue-Antivirus, rogue security product, rogue seo

Trojan Decodes Captchas Using Stolen Commercial Tools — 4 comments

Andrew Brandt wrote 2 months ago: By Andrew Brandt A new Trojan quietly circulating in the wild uses components from a commercial opti … more →

Tags: Adware, keyloggers, Phishing Trojans, Stupid malware tricks, Advanced Captcha Recognition Engine, Captcha, China, Internet Security, Spyware

One Click, and the Exploit Kit's Got You

Andrew Brandt wrote 2 months ago: By Andrew Brandt After all the brouhaha surrounding the NYTimes.com website hosting ads which spawne … more →

Tags: firefox, keyloggers, Phishing Trojans, Social Engineering, Stupid malware tricks, Adobe Flash, Adobe Reader, exploit kit, FakeAlert

"Shipping Confirmation" Malware on the Rise — 1 comment

Andrew Brandt wrote 2 months ago: By Andrew Brandt As autumn approaches, the world typically sees an increase in the number of online … more →

Tags: keyloggers, Social Networks, Stupid malware tricks, bredolab, Password Stealer, Please print the label to get your package, remote access Trojan, shipping confirmation, Tracking Number

'Koobfox' variant digs for Firefox cookies — 4 comments

Andrew Brandt wrote 3 months ago: By Andrew Brandt A new variant of the Koobface worm started striking out this week, with a twist: Wh … more →

Tags: Stupid malware tricks, Phishing Trojans, Social Networks, Social Engineering, worm, firefox, Koobface, Koobfox, Cookies

How Phishers Target WoW Players — 2 comments

Andrew Brandt wrote 3 months ago: By Andrew Brandt, Curtis Fechner, and Grayson Milbourne Yesterday, at the opening of our BlizzCon co … more →

Tags: Gaming threats, Phishing Trojans, Stupid malware tricks, blizzard, BlizzCon, Defense of the Ancients., Dota, game phishing, malmaps


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