Sunday, April 13th, 2008
First it was do-it-yourself malware and phishing toolkits, then it was specialized sites selling stolen FTP credentials and credit card accounts, and now it’s the next phase in cybercrime: crimeware as a service.
Researchers at Finjan, MarkMonitor, and Trend Micro are among those seeing a new cybercrime business model, where ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
Anti Keylogger Shield is a powerful, easy to use anti-spy software tool that prohibits operation of any keylogger, either know or unknown, professional or custom made. Once installed, Anti Keylogger Shield will run silently in your System Tray, block the system mechanisms that are exploited by keyloggers, and protect your ...
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
Recycling an old social engineering technique and using two different attack methods, a new spam run emerges as a threat to Web users before Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday. And not because it exploits soon-to-be named vulnerabilities.
What this spamming operation takes advantage of is the anticipation itself for the release of patches ...
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
Storm has once again turned its eye to the blogging community, specifically the Blogspot.com community.
Several blogger sites with random or very quirky names have been sporting a love theme, Storm style. These sites appear to have been created solely for Storm's purposes and no legitimate blogger site has of yet ...
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Saturday, April 5th, 2008
This afternoon, we got a highly customized email purporting to come from the IRS, which of course, does nothing more than load malware.
The email is made out to a key financial contact here at Sunbelt (name obfuscated for this post).
As you can see, it’s quite convincing. (Incidentally, “Sunbelt Software Distribution, ...
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