Articles Archive for 26 June 2009
Posted in Information and Removal on 26 June 2009
Following the sudden and shocking death of The King of Pop, Senior Threat Researcher Loucif Kharouni reports that a slew of malicious links related to Michael Jackson’s last moments in the hospital before his death are now being proliferated in the wild via the instant messaging (IM) application, MSN. Below is a sample screenshot of [...]
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Posted in Information and Removal on 26 June 2009
Lsas.Blaster.Keylogger is a fake Trojan infection that is usually downloaded to the PC by a rogue anti-spyware application called System Security 2009. Once installed, fake security alert appears and warns the user about the worm Lsas.Blaster.Keylogger. It is also made, that Trojan alert would announce about the credit card details, which can be stolen using [...]
Posted in Information and Removal on 26 June 2009
The Kiwee toolbar is a browser application that allows the user to search online, communicate with premium emoticons in e-mails and forums. However, this product becomes a trouble when we are talking about the bandwidth or the speed of the machine. The Kiwee toolbar is known to load the PC, and it was even reported [...]
Posted in Information and Removal on 26 June 2009
Virus Cleaner is a rogue anti-spyware program - a fake spyware remover, which uses trojans (mostly Vundo or variants of the infamous Zlob) to enter the system. This parasite relies on misleading advertising to trick you into purchasing its “licensed version”, which is just as fake as the trial.
Once inside and active, Virus Cleaner will [...]
Posted in Information and Removal on 26 June 2009
Twitter is a very popular platform for expressing whatever is on a user’s mind, making it a favorite target of malware authors. Trend Micro has published several blog entries that discussed attacks on Twitter. Now, the creators of Koobface included a new component in the malware to target the vast number of Twitter users. They’ve [...]
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Posted in Information and Removal on 26 June 2009
As the controversy about Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi rises, spammers take advantage of the news to lure their victims to their malicious plots.
The spammed mail claims to come from YouTube, but checking the domain of the sender reveals that it actually came from youtorube.com, and not from the real youtube.com.
Figure 1. Notice the [...]
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Posted in Information and Removal on 26 June 2009
Cybercriminals take the low road once again as they pepper the Internet with blackhat SEO links that are likely to attract users searching for news about the death of Charlie’s Angels star Farrah Fawcett, who, at age 62, finally ended a long struggle with cancer.
Figure 1. Blackhat SEO links for Farrah Fawcett searches sets in
Hosted [...]
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Posted in Information and Removal on 26 June 2009
We have recently discovered a version, of online fraud that takes the guise of a legitimate-lookng news website. At first glance, the content of the purported news page appears real but after conducting further analysis, one will realize that the news page is actually a spammy site.
What’s supposed to be a news article is actually [...]
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