Those who have a friend, have a honeypot.
Everyone has friends that from time to time can help you with the move. Even there are friends who help you with your work. Iñaki, a good friend of mine, has become a honeypot, obviously by accident. Several days ago I received an email message from him inviting me to download some pictures, in Portuguese. [...]
Bad “Visual†PDF
Last week a PDF document which downloaded malware fell into my hands. This is nothing new for a post, as the distribution of malware using PDF files has lately become a common practice. But there are two things that surprised me: on the one hand, the file didn’t use javascript, this time the malicious user [...]
The Hell Angels or, better said, the Malware Angels…
These days we’ve come across a new worm with old intentions. It has been detected as W32/Mseus.A, though it comes together with two friends W32/Mseus.A.worm and Rootkit/Mseus.B, a lovely bunch. It’s very curious how social engineering is being used to trick users, this time appealing to the users’ vanity to check if they can be [...]
