http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com everything you need to know about Internet threats Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:42:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en People ask me many times how are the bad guys using Facebook to distribute malware. Even though there are multiple answers to that question, at the end of the day Facebook is just another way to communicate, and it has more that 400 million users, so it's just another mean ... http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/distributing-malware-through-facebook/ Today, at 18:00 (GMT + 1), the 2nd Security Blogger Summit will open at the Círculo de Bellas Artes (Madrid). Organized by Panda, the three-hour Summit will consist of a roundtable discussion, bringing together several American and Spanish security experts: Kurt Weismer, renowned security opinion leader and author of the blog ... http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/2nd-security-blogger-summit/ Since yesterday, our lab has detected a flood of email messages that seem to contain a Microsoft Update, but it’s actually malware. We’ve seen around 3,000 in a few hours. The message is like the following: This email, which seems to have been sent by the Microsoft Support team, informs you that a ... http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/microsoft-support-informs-you%e2%80%a6/ Spam is something that we see on a daily basis. Everyday thousands of unwanted e-mails arrive to our mailboxes. We have seen them in all kind of flavours. Plain text, html, instant messaging, images, pdf, even in MP3. Users are able to learn, so usually when we know that a ... http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/spam-using-twitter-and-youtube/ A small worm has been spreading through social networks today.  The attack is primarily focused on Facebook and the link which spreads the worm claims to be a revenge website dedicated to exposing a risque video of an ex-girlfriend on the Internet.   The site instructs the victim to download and ... http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/ex-girlfriend-worm-on-facebook/ Since yesterday, our lab has detected a flood of email messages that seem to contain a postcard, but it's actually  malware. We’ve seen around 5,000 in a few hours. It’s not the first time we see emails like this in circulation, as subjects like “You’ve received a postcard” are very recurrent. The ... http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/you%e2%80%99ve-received-a-malicious-postcard/ This post will probably sound familiar to you, as some days ago we published a similar post talking about how issues like Google's Nexus One and the earthquake in Haiti were being used to distribute malware. Once more we have to warn you against a new BlackHat SEO attack that ... http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/this-time-it%e2%80%99s-apple-ipad%e2%80%99s-turn/ Cybercriminals are always trying to figure out the best way to fool users, and I have to admit that sometimes they do it using some smart approaches. There is an hoax circulating on Facebook right now: ALERT >>>>> Has your facebook been running slow lately? Go to “Settings” and select “application ... http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/unnamed-app/ 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 ... http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/the-hell-angels-or-better-said-the-malware-angels%e2%80%a6/ As humans beings, we tend to be a bit lazy, at least in most of the cases. And cybercriminals are human beings, and therefore, lazy :) My colleage Andrew Chang (AhnLab) has sent me a  MS10-002 Exploit Constructor they've found out in a Chinese underground web site. When you run it, ... http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/ms10-002-exploit-constructor/