May 2009 - Posts

YouTube riddled with comments leading to Malware

Posted by Sean-Paul Correll at  22 May 09 08:10     A few months ago, we talked about YouTube's Annotations feature being used as a tool for Cyber Criminals to help spread their malicious Rogueware campaigns. Today, we have a similar case, but this time its automated comment Malspam (Malware spam).

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Category: Rogueware, Malicious links, YouTube

MS08-066 in the wild

Posted by Ismael Briones at  14 May 09 05:33     We always recommend not to use a Windows user with admin privileges as our default Windows user. Actually, most of the malware relies in the fact that people use high privileges users on their system so when a malware is executed it can control the entire

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Swine flu and the Blackhat SEO techniques

Posted by Oscar Cavada at  05 May 09 01:12     You should be careful when you’re looking for information on the web. Not everything is as it seems, and even more when the Blackhat SEO techniques are so frequently used, which enable malicious websites to be positioned in search engines. And why

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Category: SEO, Blackhat