April 2009 - Posts

New Panda Cloud Antivirus

Posted by Oscar Cavada at  29 April 09 01:32     Today, we have launched Panda Cloud Antivirus, an exciting new product, Light, Secure, Easy & Free. Visit http://www.cloudantivirus.com/ Try it!!!

Read More...

HAMLET. "Something is rotten in the state of Malware"

Posted by Luis Corrons at  23 April 09 07:54     Written on behalf of José Julio Ruiz de Loizaga. Today being the birthday of William Shakespeare, I felt the urge to write this post. When reversing files, one is prepared to find anything - well, almost anything. I was analyzing a dll and was

Read More...

Category: Malware

New Blackhat SEO attack exploits vulnerabilities in Wordpress to distribute rogue antivirus software

Posted by Sean-Paul Correll at  23 April 09 06:50     Over the past week we have seen a new Blackhat SEO technique emerge to exploit vulnerabilities in the popular Wordpress blog software. Two of the sites we identified were TheWorkBuzz.com, a website owned and operated by Career Builder (CareerBuilder.com),

Read More...

Category: SEO, Blackhat, Video, The Work Buzz, Rogue Anti-malware

Ransomware Reloaded

Posted by Xabier Francisco at  20 April 09 05:24     One of the latest examples of ransomware we have seen is Trj/SMSlock.A The main aim of this malware is to make users pay ransom for their computer in order to have it completely operative. Until now some of the functionalities we had seen in ransomware

Read More...

New waledac's campaign

Posted by Asier Martínez at  16 April 09 10:00     Waledac family activity has increased during the last months. The malware creators have been using several social engineering techniques to spread these samples: important dates like Christmas and Valentine’s Day, important events such as the appointment

Read More...

Category: Malware, SMS, Fast-flux

Targeted Blackhat SEO Attack against Ford Motor Co. (Updated)

Posted by Sean-Paul Correll at  14 April 09 10:29     Recently, we have talked about Blackhat SEO fueled Rogue Software Campaigns . Today, we have uncovered a similar campaign with over 1 Million links all targeting the Ford Motor Company . These attacks work by misleading search engines to falsely promote

Read More...

Category: Targeted Attack, SEO, Blackhat, Rogue Antimalware

New Zero-Day exploit for Microsoft PowerPoint: Exploit/PPT

Posted by Oscar Cavada at  03 April 09 12:59     Yesterday Microsoft published a new advisory related to a vulnerability in Microsoft Office PowerPoint, which could allow remote code execution. In the following image, you can see the versions affected by this vulnerability: This vulnerability affects

Read More...

Quarterly Report January-March 2009

Posted by Xabier Francisco at  02 April 09 03:58     We have just published the latest PandaLabs Quarterly Report. There, you can find statistics and information about the current situation of malware as well as different sections analyzing the most interesting events of the first quarter ( like the most

Read More...