November 2008 - Posts

Anatomy of a Rogue Security Campaign

Posted by Sean-Paul Correll at  25 November 08 09:16     Reference for diagram: Step 1: Blue Shows the process at which the user will be directed to the infected website. Step 2: Red Shows the path of the harvested information from the user to the black market. Step 3: Green Shows the payments from the user

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ICANN Terminates Contract with EstDomains

Posted by Sean-Paul Correll at  25 November 08 08:57     The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has terminated its contract with the widely criticized domain registrar, EstDomains. For those who don't know, EstDomains is an Estonian company registered as a United States Corporation

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New ways to distribute rogueware

Posted by Luis Corrons at  21 November 08 11:13     Nowadays, the most prevalent infections belong to rogueware, which are those fake antivirus, antispyware or anti-anything that try to take the money from the users by making them pay to remove nonexistent threats. As we showed recently, they are making

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Category: Cybercrime, Rogueware

As stock market drops malware rises

Posted by Ryan Sherstobitoff at  21 November 08 07:42     As the U.S. stock market indexes dramatically declined in September, cybercriminals began organizing their efforts to sustain profitability. While the stock market shows a sharp declining trend, malware has a very different trend which indicates growth

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Category: Cybercrime

Fake Email of the Federal Police of Brazil (Computer crimes investigation unit)

Posted by Xabier Francisco at  18 November 08 06:19     This fake email seems to be sent from the Computer crimes investigation unit of the Brazilian federal police department. It pretends to frighten users by accussing them of having accessed to ilegal websites from their computer and entices them to view

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Category: Cybercrime, Malware

Microsoft Updates for November

Posted by Xabier Francisco at  12 November 08 04:39     This month two new security bulletins have been published ( MS08-068 and MS08-069 ) as part of the usual launch of Microsoft Updates . According to Microsoft's classification one of the bulletins are rated as "critical" and the last one

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Category: Security Reports

Facebook and MySpace's worm

Posted by Oscar Cavada at  10 November 08 04:29     PandaLabs has recently detected a new variant of the Boface family that affects the social networks Facebook and MySpace. In this case, the worm sends all the user's friends a message which contains a link to a supposed YouTube video. In order to

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Category: Malware

Barack Obama's Spam & Malware Campaign

Posted by Xabier Francisco at  06 November 08 12:45     Shortly after having known the results of the US presidencial elections, the cyber-crooks have used this topic to distribute malware in spam messages. One of these malicious emails seems to be sent from an online newspaper from Peru. Its content is in

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Category: Malware