Chilean miners tragedy used to distribute malware
We want to warn you of a Banker Trojan that is using the news of the miners trapped in Chile to be distributed and infect users. It has been detected as Banbra.GUC. The malicious file reaches the computer with the following icon: When this file is run, the Internet Explorer browser is opened showing a [...]
Chelsea Clinton BlackHat SEO attack
We want to warn you of a new BlackHat SEO attack that we have detected and that aims at distributing rogueware. Be careful when you search for information about Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of President Bill Clinton, who has been in the news recently due to her recent wedding, as you can fall into the [...]
Gossip Computer Crimes
Yesterday we heard about some news regarding the arrest of a group of hackers accused of having launched attacks against several websites: those belonging to PSOE and PP (the main political parties in Spain), and surprisingly the website of Sálvame, a gossip show of a Spanish TV channel. The group, known as K0 team, had [...]
The Fake Car Tax
Last weekend we detected a wave of spam messages used to distribute malware, emails that are still in circulation. It’s an attack mainly aimed at car owners, as the subject of these emails is about some changes in the car tax. It can reach the computer with any of the following subjects, among others: ***BULK*** [...]
This summer I’m going phishing
Today a new season begins, summer has come and holidays are already in our minds. I’ve been thinking whether to go somewhere or stay here hoping to have good weather to go to the surrounding beaches, because now is not a good time with the crisis and all this stuff. Well, I’ve made up my [...]
Spam cocktail: eBay, Twitter, Amazon and Outlook
Here you have a summary of different email messages with malicious intentions that we’ve detected recently. On the one hand, we have a phishing message affecting eBay company, and on the other, emails referring to different subjects in order to distribute the rogueware detected as Adware/ProtectionCenter. Its purpose is the same as the other rogueware [...]
Out of the frying pan, into the fire…
…or as it is popularly said, at least, in Spain: “From Guatemala to Guatepeorâ€. As if things weren’t bad enough in Central America after the dramatic consequences that the Agatha storm had in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, cybercrooks are taking advantage of the news about the misterious sinkhole that appeared in Guatemala city, in [...]
Facebook or Fakebook?
We’ve detected an increase in the number of domains containing the word facebook and which belong to malicious websites. What is clear is that cybercrooks are aware of the success of the social networks, especially Facebook, and consider them an entry point to distribute malware or to obtain credentials. Among them there are the following: [...]
Remembering old times…
Gone are the days when malware creators mainly looked for fame and notoriety without causing much damage to the users’ computers. Nowadays it seems that obtaining financial gains at all costs is the only thing that really matters, going as unnoticed as possible to avoid users’ and antivirus companies’ awareness. I started to miss those [...]
Undetectable bots at your fingertips
We want to inform you of an Internet website which sells bots mainly designed for social networks. The following image is an example of the services offered in the website, like the creation of accounts in different web services, from social networks like Twitter or Friendster to sites such as MySpace or YouTube, and even [...]
