Unknown: OSX_JAHLAV.B

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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Koobface Tweets

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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Italy: Political Controversy Spam

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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Blackhat SEO Quick to Abuse Farrah Fawcett Death

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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Google Cash Club Makes Headlines in Phishing Attack

System Security 4.52 is a new release of System Security malware that imitates the computer to be infected and then requires the money for fixing this problem. It became absolutely a routine for many rogue security programs to spread themselves with Trojans in such a way.
After parasites come to the PC undetected, a few critical [...]

Malware: TROJ_FAKEAV.BBM

In a few blog notes before we boasted statistics of antivirus scan speeds within Outpost Security Suite, here’s the data of yet another research performed by Antimalware Test Lab.

As you remember all Agnitum’s products are empowered with SmartScan technology, which helps skyrocket overall product performance and dramatically minimize scanning time. SmartScan records statistics of previous scans and avoids checking unchanged files in consequent analyses, which makes malware checks extremely fast and easy.

The first chart shows primary scan speeds across a bunch of security solutions:

Outpost 2009 does pretty well on the clean set collection with a decent 3 minutes showing.

Now let’s take a look at the repeated scan statistics:

Yes, right! Outpost performs a repeated check in just about 5 seconds!

For details, you can study the chart below (click to enlarge):

Keep your eye open for Outpost software updates and new versions that will include further performance tweaks and iterations of the acclaimed SmartScan technology.

ErrorFix is a fake registry cleaner, which comes as no surprise having in mind how notorious registry cleaners have been over the years for being either fake or ineffective tools. This parasite, however, is not merely fake and ineffective, but even dangerous to some extent, not to mention annoying. ErrorFix uses trojans or worms to spread [...]

Earlier today Rik Ferguson at the Countermeasures blog posted about a new malware threat that came from Twitter. The details are at his post but the short version is as follows:
Somehow, the Twitter account of noted venture capitalist and writer/columnist, Guy Kawasaki, was hacked into posting a malicious tweet/update (see Figure 1). It came with [...]

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Another Sex Tape, Another Malware Attack