by admin | Oct 23, 2019 | Uncategorized
Between 2005-2010, Sunbelt Software (now ThreatTrack Security) was on the vanguard of security blogging. The history of the antimalware and antispyware fights of the decade are well chronicled in this blog and it is being posted for historical and research...
by Alex Eckelberry | Oct 19, 2011 | Uncategorized
After 9 years of building Sunbelt Software, and then working for GFI, I have decided to move on. It’s been a great adventure. I joined Stu Sjouwerman, who had built a distribution company, to start the “Software” part of Sunbelt Software. We...
by Alex Eckelberry | Oct 19, 2011 | Uncategorized
GFI Software made it in the books of Philippine cybersecurity history by taking part in RootCon, the first official security conference in the Philippines, which was held in Cebu City last month. Two of ours—Berman Enconado (Senior Malware Analyst at the Manila Labs)...
by Alex Eckelberry | Oct 19, 2011 | Uncategorized
Just a heads up that a popular Twitter phish is still doing the rounds: Click to Enlarge”Found a funny picture of you! mugweb(dot)ru”Clicking the link takes you to twittelr(dot)com/verify-/session/login-/Click to EnlargeIf you enter your details...
by Alex Eckelberry | Oct 18, 2011 | Uncategorized
I’ll admit, it’s the first time I’ve stayed in a hotel room where they managed to nail four copies of the same picture to the wall horizontally instead of vertically. Here’s one:Click to EnlargeThe others were just as spectacular. Anyway, RSA...
by Alex Eckelberry | Oct 18, 2011 | Uncategorized
Here’s an advert in Bing which wants you to install some adware located at chrome(dot)freewarecentral(dot)net – it was coming up in results when searching for “Chrome download”. Click to EnlargeAs with most of these downloads, the...
by Alex Eckelberry | Oct 18, 2011 | Uncategorized
Here’s a 419 scam with a little of everything, including a wonderful fake website. First, the email:Click to EnlargeIn case you don’t want to read it – goodness knows, I tried – the “Hot Diamond Organization” have taken time out...
by Alex Eckelberry | Oct 18, 2011 | Uncategorized
One of our researchers has come across a supposed hacking tool—GMail Hacker Pro—that claims it can compromise GMail accounts. This tool comes with a fairly slick looking website (complete with live chat support) located at gmailhackerpro(dot)com.Click to enlargeDuring...
by Alex Eckelberry | Oct 17, 2011 | Uncategorized
On a recent press tour in Boston, I sat with Rob and chatted about security for small to medium businesses. Audio interview link here. Alex Eckelberry
by Alex Eckelberry | Oct 17, 2011 | Uncategorized
I’m sure a McDonald’s themed Facebook scam seemed like a good idea to somebody at the time, but wow is this one all over the place. It’s your typical “Click here to Like”, “Post a spam comment saying how good this is” then...
by Alex Eckelberry | Oct 17, 2011 | Uncategorized
There’s now a mobile device version of NoScript available for, er, mobile devices. If you’re not familiar with NoScript, then take it away Wikipedia:NoScript is a free and open-source extension for Mozilla Firefox, SeaMonkey, and other Mozilla-based web...
by Alex Eckelberry | Oct 17, 2011 | Uncategorized
Or, to put it another way, you didn’t.However, spam mail doing the rounds wants you to think otherwise.Click to Enlarge”You have three lost messages on Facebook, to recover the messages please follow the link below.”The links just go to the usual...
by Alex Eckelberry | Oct 14, 2011 | Uncategorized
We know people love VIPRE. But sometimes, we’re suprised that our own competitors love it too!Symantec loves VIPRE so much, they’ve used the VIPRE snake!Webroot loves VIPRE so much, they are giving out a VIPER scooter. We like ours better. Here’s our VIPRE Ducati:(And...
by Alex Eckelberry | Oct 14, 2011 | Uncategorized
We’ve noted this before, but Microsoft needs to get a handle on ad placements on Bing. Ok, so Bing isn’t the most widely used search engine, but remember that Yahoo plays a part here as well. In this case, we’re talking Sirefef (ZeroAccess aka...
by Alex Eckelberry | Oct 13, 2011 | Uncategorized
It was early this week when Microsoft released its latest volume of the Security Intelligence Report, or SIR. This report, Microsoft noted, “exposes the threat landscape of exploits, vulnerabilities, and malware”, aiming to “help you protect...
by Alex Eckelberry | Oct 12, 2011 | Uncategorized
This new phishing campaign is trying to get Google credentials and it’s quite well executed. Alex Eckelberry
by Alex Eckelberry | Oct 11, 2011 | Uncategorized
Here’s an example of the “Content suitable for adults” verification scam seen over on Tumblr popping up in the world of Orkut. Clicking through teases the end-user with semi naked body bits flopping about all over the screen, followed by a rather...
by Alex Eckelberry | Oct 10, 2011 | Uncategorized
Click to EnlargeThis is really quite brilliant.Christopher Boyd
by Alex Eckelberry | Oct 10, 2011 | Uncategorized
This is a reasonably convincing “give us your personal details” phish until the last moment when it all goes horribly wrong. The site in the first two screenshots is dead, the form is still live and hosted...
by Alex Eckelberry | Oct 10, 2011 | Uncategorized
No, Apple are still not giving away iPads. Here’s another Facebook fakeout located at the groanworthy URL stevejobsappleipad2giveway(dot)tk:Click to EnlargeClicking the page elements they want you to click on takes you to the usual collection of offers and other...