September 2009 - Posts

Fake IRS Notifications

Posted by Sean-Paul Correll at  28 September 09 11:45     Fake IRS notification e-mails have been in circulation on the Internet over the past few weeks. We've monitored the situation closely and have observed 30 active domain names currently spreading the Zeus trojan affiliated with the spam campaign, as

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Blackhat SEO continues to ravage search results

Posted by Sean-Paul Correll at  23 September 09 01:26     Every day cyber criminals are exploiting search engines to display high ranking malicious search results. Targeting hot topics allows for cyber criminals to improve infection rates for their money making Rogueware (pdf) schemes. Below is an example of

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Hack MySpace, ICQ, and Vkontakte for $100 (50% discount for Russians)

Posted by Sean-Paul Correll at  21 September 09 09:43     The Ukrainian Facebook scam we blogged about on Friday has similar campaigns for MySpace, ICQ, and Vkontakte. All of the scam sites are identical in design and require the payment of $100 except for the Vkontakte scam site. Vkontakte is a Russian clone

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Your Facebook account is worth $100

Posted by Luis Corrons at  18 September 09 09:07     Yesterday I came across (thanks Sean-Paul!) the following site, which really attracted my attention: As you can see, it is an online service which promises to hack any Facebook account just for 100 bucks (!). My first thought about this was "ok,

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Blackhat SEO Attack Targets Obama's Speech

Posted by Sean-Paul Correll at  10 September 09 01:52     Using search engines to browse the Internet these days is a dangerous endeavor. Cyber criminals are keen on gaming search engine algorithms and are able to quickly divert innocent news seekers to malicious websites. Today, WIRED reported that cyber criminals

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Live Demo: Banking Trojans

Posted by Sean-Paul Correll at  09 September 09 12:09     Banking Trojans are one of the most prevalent Malware species in the threat landscape today. Malware authors aim to keep infections live and undetected long enough so that they can get what they are really after: money. Financial motivations lead malware

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Rogueware Demo: Online Antivirus

Posted by Sean-Paul Correll at  05 September 09 03:51     Rogueware authors continue to push the limits when tricking innocent users into infecting themselves. In this video example, we demonstrate the audio and visual cues used in a scareware campaign.

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Be Careful With Your Search Results

Posted by Sean-Paul Correll at  01 September 09 07:29     Update: Learn about the latest BHSEO attack here. Blackhat SEO (BHSEO) is currently one of the most prevalent distribution methods for Malware on the Internet. It’s also one of the most dangerous methods because of the user-implied trust in search

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