Fake Windows Security Center alert
We’ve started receiving email messages passing itself off as a warning message from the Windows Security Center. The subject of the message is Windows Security Center Alert! The message contains a window informing you that your computer can be a victim of an infection and recommending you to scan your system. Additionally, it contains a [...]
I’m a bit ByteDefender
We want to warn you of a new rogueware that is being distributed. This is nothing new, as we see new samples of rogueware day in day out. The name of this rogueware is very similar to a legitimate antivirus program, so that it can be mistaken with a real antivirus solution. In this case, [...]
Twitter used to distribute malware
A new malware has started to spread via the social network Twitter. The message that is being used is: haha this is the funniest video ive EVER SEEN! and contains a link to a video. Cybercrooks have managed so that this message obtains good positions in Twitter section known as “Trending topicsâ€, which contains the [...]
Lost, Ronnie James Dio, and so on and so forth, to distribute rogueware
It seems that false antivirus have found in the BlackHat SEO attacks a usual means to be distributed. That’s the case of the rogueware MySecurityEngine which is using a varied medley of subjects, some of them arousing people’s interest, like the successful series Lost, whose final episode will be on 23rd of this month, or [...]
Phishing Alert of Navy Federal
We want to warn you of a phishing message we’ve detected that is using the Navy Federal company to obtain users’ credentials to this service and other confidential information. You receive an email message that seems to come from this company with a link. If you click the link, you’ll be redirected to a website [...]
I’m a crack!
Internet offers us many possibilities, some of them are tempting, like downloading all types of programs without having to pay for it. I’m not going to comment whether this is good or bad, I only want to warn you of the risks you may run, as the websites that offer this type of “products†are [...]
Making new friends…
I’m very happy because I’ve received a greeting card via email from a new friend, thought it’s not my birthday, my saint’s day or anything like that Look what a nice card I’ve received: Besides, it has been sent from 123greetings, which is a legal website to download and send cards, so it must be [...]
An explosive cocktail: MySecuWaloader
In this post we are going to prepare a cocktail using 4 ingredients. We’ve called it MySecuWaloader. Now you’ll find out why. First of all, put into the cocktail shaker a BlackHat SEO attack together with a sample of rogueware and see the result: If you search for any the following group of keywords related [...]
Spammers, Blogs & New Techniques II
Last week we published a post about the huge amount of spam we receive in the blog and how the antispam filter we’ve installed is helping us to identify which comments are real and which are not. Today we’re going to show you other type of spam comments we’ve received in the last hours. If [...]
Don’t play with Natural Disasters!!
We want to warn you of an email message in Spanish we’ve received with the subject ( Urgente ) Posible Terremoto y Tsunami con un 89 % de efectividad and that is of course false. The message consists of different images and informs users about an alert of earthquake and tsunami in Chile. Besides, it [...]
