Articles Archive for 2 March 2010
Posted in Information and Removal on 2 March 2010
Where news leads, cybercriminals follow. Over the weekend, a massive earthquake hit Chile and killed hundreds of people. This, of course, was soon followed by a blackhat SEO attack that successfully placed multiple malicious links leading to FAKEAV malware on top of the search results for “chile earthquake 2010 wiki.”
According to Senior Threat Analyst, Joseph [...]
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Posted in Information and Removal on 2 March 2010
A new KOOBFACE variant is again making the rounds in the social-networking scene. According to Trend Micro researcher, Norman Ingal, the malware employs Facebook’s Private Message feature to proliferate.
The threat arrives as a Facebook private message that does not bear a subject but contains a supposed link to a YouTube video. Taking a closer look [...]
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Posted in Information and Removal on 2 March 2010
Phishing and its effects, namely, identity fraud, continue to grow. Unfortunately, it is now easier than ever to carry out these kinds of attacks.
Cybercriminals are now using a new tool known as “Super Phisher” (detected by Trend Micro as HKTL_SUPERPHISER) has been released, which creates a phishing page from a legitimate website.
The tool creates all [...]
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Posted in Information and Removal on 2 March 2010
Google recently announced its latest service Google Buzz, which is considered as the company’s first step in entering the social-networking scene. Naturally, hordes of Internet users became interested in the new application. But such buzz also gained unwanted attention from cybercriminals who already used the service to spread a malware detected by Trend Micro as [...]
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