Articles Archive for 2 March 2010
Posted in Information and Removal on 2 March 2010
Four men were accused for purchasing and reselling more than one million tickets to various concerts and sport matches with a help of modern computer programs. Kenneth Lowson, Kristofer Kirsch, Faisal Nahdi and Joel Stevenson used a computer program to bypass protection tools that control the number of tickets that one person can buy. Usually [...]
Posted in Information and Removal on 2 March 2010
Text scams are increasingly becoming common again due to the forthcoming Philippine national and local elections, as political campaigns take to rampant text messaging for faster political mobilization. Earlier, I received a text message with the following content:
May GOD bountifuly bles u & ur family. Have a blissful day Fr Frends of UNI-MAD Party List, [...]
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Posted in Information and Removal on 2 March 2010
Asking for help in Windows could lead to more trouble.
A newly discovered vulnerability in Internet Explorer (IE) leverages the ability of a Visual Basic script to invoke a .HLP (Windows Help file format) file, which could give a remote attacker the ability to run arbitrary code on an affected system.
Visual Basic uses the following syntax [...]
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Posted in Information and Removal on 2 March 2010
“System Alert:Virus Chin09.Win” is a new annoying notification that has been created by hackers who expect their victims to become scared and additionally purchase Dr. Guard for getting rid of this announced “virus”. In fact, this notification tells the truth but the virus is another. As you may have read, Dr.Guard is a rogue anti-spyware, [...]
Posted in F-Secure on 2 March 2010
This program delivers advertising content to the user. It is usually annoying but harmless, unless it is combined with spyware or trackware.
Posted in Information and Removal on 2 March 2010
Just when you think old-school network bots are dead, a group of cybercriminals revives them from them grave in the name of Chuck Norris. Dubbed the “Chuck Norris botnet,” based on the Italian comment in its source code, in nome di Chuck Norris (translation: “in the name of Chuck Norris”), this botnet infects vulnerable DSL [...]
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Posted in Information and Removal on 2 March 2010
Trend Micro recently came across a .PDF file sample that exploits a vulnerability that was discovered as early as mid-2009. The specially crafted .PDF file detected as TROJ_PIDIEF.SML contains malicious JavaScript in its code that uses the getAnnots() method to corrupt an affected system’s memory.
It is interesting to note that its final payload is [...]
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Posted in Information and Removal on 2 March 2010
Spammers are clearly becoming more and more creative as they try new ways to bypass our anti-spam filters. Just recently, we received a spammed message disguised as a spam quarantine notification message from a competitor.
To the untrained eye, the email looks quite convincing. However, closer inspection of the message properties reveals that while the email [...]
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Posted in Information and Removal on 2 March 2010
A new wave of spammed messages posing as mail service notifications targeted antivirus companies, including Trend Micro. These messages ask the receivers to update their mailbox settings by opening and executing the attachment.
The two samples above TrendLabs obtained were sent to domains that belonged to Trend Micro. The file attachment does not contain any mailbox [...]
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