Bot shopping with my wife
When my wife told me she had received an email with a purchase confirmation she hadn’t done, my first thought was: How can she even remember what she bought? She buys thousands of clothes online, probably she doesn’t remember it, this wouldn’t be the first time After she told me 1,000 times she had not [...]
Ransomware posing as Microsoft
We’ve found yet another malware piece, this time it is a ransomware to take some of your money. Once you get infected (you can receive it in a number of different ways, most likely via spam messages and P2P), your computer is restarted. What for? Well, the malware installs itself to run every time your [...]
Trojan uses Amy Winehouse death
Last week I was talking about how certain cybercriminals used social engineering techniques in order to spread their creations, and today I can show you yet another good example of this, showing how fast these guys react on any news to take advantage of the buzz. In this case they are using the recent death [...]
Brazilians, banking Trojans and social engineering
Maybe you don’t know this, but many guys here in the lab can tell you where a banking Trojan is from just taking a look at it for a few seconds. There are a number of different banking Trojan families, but it’s really easy -once you have analyzed thousands of them- to group them by [...]
My take on the IMF hack
This weekend, while the Anonymous people were DDoSing the Spanish Police web site in what they call “peaceful protests” (are they ignorant or just cynical?) another news came out: the International Money Found was hacked, and had been compromised for months. Shocking news As soon as it was made public all media start talking about [...]
I Love.exe You – Happy Saint Valentine’s day
In a few days, the 14th of February, it will be Saint Valentine’s day. Be ready as we will see malware and spam spreading using this topic to click on links and install Trojans in our computers, as usual. In fact cybercriminals have already started; some days ago I came across a file called “Love.exe”, [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Is it safe to download pirated software?
One of the most frequently asked questions that we receive is, “Is it safe to download pirated software?” The answer? No, in most cases it’s not safe. Simply put, peer-to-peer networks are breeding grounds for malware and more specifically Trojans. PandaLabs receives and processes 55,000 samples a day, many of which are Trojans bundled with [...]
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 [...]
