Black(hat) Friday

Posted by Sean-Paul Correll at  20 November 09 10:01     If you plan on shopping online for "Black Friday", or "Cyber Monday", you might be in for more than you bargained for. Cyber criminals behind the Rogueware epidemic have their blackhat SEO campaigns optimized to take advantage of deal

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See how the Rick Astley iPhone hack attack works

Posted by Xabier Francisco at  12 November 09 06:44     We have created a video on how the iPhone/Eeki worm targeting iPhones works. You can see it here: As you can see in the video, this malware first checks it is not already running on the device. To do so, it checks whether the following file exists: /var/lock/bbot.lock

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Blackhat SEO Aggressively Targets Halloween Related Keywords

Posted by Sean-Paul Correll at  28 October 09 01:00     Cyber criminals behind the Rogueware epidemic have been hard at work in poisoning search results to increase traffic to their campaign sites. Today, we identified a new Blackhat SEO campaign, which is currently targeting Halloween related keywords aggressively.

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Blackhat SEO Campaign Targets 2009 Nobel Prize Winner

Posted by Sean-Paul Correll at  09 October 09 02:20     We’ve identified a new Blackhat SEO campaign today which targets President Obama as the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winner among a thousand or so other search terms. Clicking on a malicious search result yields the typical Rogueware campaign. Search

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Rogueware with new Ransomware Technology™

Posted by Sean-Paul Correll at  08 October 09 01:05     The criminals behind Rogueware attacks are becoming increasingly aggressive in their approach to make money. We recently stumbled across a sample ( Adware/TotalSecurity2009 ) which uses a ransomware technique to improve its sales. Once the computer becomes

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Rogueware distributors use Skype

Posted by Sean-Paul Correll at  05 October 09 12:41     Rogueware distributors are like the cockroaches of the Internet; they’re everywhere. Malicious search results, online advertisements, and iframe hijacked sites are the typical distribution methods, but every once in a while we come across an interesting

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Q3 report released

Posted by Luis Corrons at  01 October 09 09:51     We've just published our latest quarterly report. We'll show the different figures about malware in Q3, and some interesting articles. If you want to know what has happened in the last 3 months, which have been the most important Blakhat SEO attackes

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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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