by Alex Eckelberry | Sep 7, 2011 | Uncategorized
Another day, another random website offering up freebies that you’d be better off without. This time around, the site in question is located at freeamazingsoftwares(dot)blogspot(dot)com. The free programs include – stop me if you’ve heard this one...
by Alex Eckelberry | Sep 7, 2011 | Uncategorized
Click to EnlargeThis year, Cebu Island is playing host to the fifth Rootcon security conference, which takes place on the 9th and 10th of September. GFI Software has two standalone talks at this one – “Introducing TDL4, a Sophisticated Fraudster’s...
by Alex Eckelberry | Sep 1, 2011 | Uncategorized
Here’s a phishing scam that lures users with the promise of getting their “old Facebook profile” back. What that means is up for debate – maybe the scammer is harking back to a land of slightly less privacy options, or maybe he just wants you...
by Alex Eckelberry | Aug 30, 2011 | Uncategorized
It seems the Northumbria Police Authority website (northumbriapoliceauthority(dot)org(dot)uk) was compromised recently to push a “fight the power” message, and it looks like the defacement is the least of their worries as you’ll see shortly.What is...
by Alex Eckelberry | Aug 29, 2011 | Uncategorized
As much as we dread hearing about disasters—the natural ones, most especially—happening on certain parts of the globe where most of our families and friends are, we still keep an eye out for what’s happening. And as much as we dread remembering that there are...
by Alex Eckelberry | Aug 29, 2011 | Uncategorized
Our friends at Zscaler has blogged about a website compromise involving Karnataka Vikas Grameena Bank (KVGB), a prominent regional rural bank in India, last February of this year. It then housed a malicious JavaScript (JS) code that redirects visitors to another...
by Alex Eckelberry | Aug 25, 2011 | Uncategorized
Facebook recently published a guide for it’s users on how to secure their online accounts from anything that threatens one’s Facebook security. Among those covered are Wall, Chat, and Comment spams, weak passwords, fake applications, and account hacking....
by Alex Eckelberry | Aug 18, 2011 | Uncategorized
Our engineers over at the AV Labs have spotted recently a deluge of spam about a “traffic ticket” that purports to come from a state department in New York. The said spam has a compressed file attachment that, once extracted, contains a file that bears the...
by Alex Eckelberry | Aug 11, 2011 | Uncategorized
CCleaner (formerly Crap Cleaner, which is a glorious name) is a handy program used to remove unwanted files, fix borked registry entries and more besides.There’s a website located at myccleaner(dot)ru which claims to be offering up multiple versions /...
by Alex Eckelberry | Aug 4, 2011 | Uncategorized
A lot of chatter and breathless reporting about Shady RAT. All the makings of an epically awesome story — the US is being taken down by Chinese interlopers to the nastiest degree, installing keyloggers and other badness on US government computers. ...
by Alex Eckelberry | Aug 4, 2011 | Uncategorized
Now that I have Harry Potter fans foaming at the mouth for randomly mashing up two unrelated spells to express the intent of this blog entry, I’ll continue.Pottermore is – help me out here, Wikipedia – a site that will sell eBooks of the Harry Potter...
by Alex Eckelberry | Aug 4, 2011 | Uncategorized
I’m almost certain pretending to be the Department of Defense is not a good idea, but then it’s not like a 419 scammer has that many of those in the first place. In fact, they can’t even format an email properly so here’s my best attempt at...
by Alex Eckelberry | Aug 1, 2011 | Uncategorized
Here’s a site called watchtopgear(dot)info that lets you – amazingly enough – watch Top Gear.Sort of. Click to EnlargeSeries 16 / 17 are yours for the taking. Sounds awesome if you’re a Top Gear fan, but of course you need to install...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jul 29, 2011 | Uncategorized
A few weeks ago, I blogged about porn/malware redirects being hosted on Flickr. After a brief respite, it’s back and strong.Just a quick and trivial search shows over hundreds of porn redirect links, pushing “lolita porn” and redirecting to...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jul 28, 2011 | Uncategorized
Here’s something that looks like Skype, may or may not give you Skype but certainly wants something in return for it first. Click to Enlarge Click to EnlargeSo far, so good I guess. It’s all in Russian of course, but it looks like it is actually...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jul 27, 2011 | Uncategorized
There are over 3,000 malicious sites on Typepad serving malware. I’ve put the list of malicious domains here. I’ve also notified Typepad.Typepad — get a clear abuse or security contact on your site, and do some work to police your blogs....
by Alex Eckelberry | Jul 25, 2011 | Uncategorized
I don’t want your heads to explode with the force of a thousand Suns, but I think we may be looking at a new Rogue AV gimmick – specifically in the area of Codecs. I know, I know. Breathe deeply and take a seat.Researcher Adam Thomas was investigating some...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jul 22, 2011 | Uncategorized
Here’s a site located at buburuzka(dot)com/xhupt/71093(dot)php offering up some fake Flash. Humorously, they don’t seem to have taken much notice of the latest Flash Player version – compare and contrast:Click to EnlargeAs you can see, a bit of...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jul 22, 2011 | Uncategorized
This is the National Development Volunteer Service of Nepal located at ndvs(dot)gov(dot)np/_vti_cnf/customer(dot)ibc(dot)htm:Click to EnlargeThis is an unwelcome addition to the website in the form of a Lloyd’s TSB Phish.Click to EnlargeIt’s still live at...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jul 21, 2011 | Uncategorized
I don’t know what it is about this one that sets the Spidey Sense tingling.Maybe it’s the fact it promises to make things all too easy – Vader reference there for anyone keeping score – for the lazy crook.Maybe it’s the fact the little...
