by Alex Eckelberry | Jul 20, 2011 | Uncategorized
I love the smell of some Twitter spam in the morning. iPads, iPods, books, movies, videogames, free holidays: I’ve seen – and blocked – them all.Then this happened.Yes, Twitter users are being sent, er, a free “arse”. Quite a lot of them,...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jul 19, 2011 | Uncategorized
Hopefully the two Yahoo phish pages listed below won’t be online for too long:Click to EnlargeThey’re located atnudeyahoo(dot)hi2(dot)ro/foto/andmaill-yahoo(dot)comThe first one is obvious, the second one is rather sneaky. In terms of browsers catching...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jul 18, 2011 | advertising, batman, dark knight rises, fake, installs, scam, trailers, youtube
Batman. His interests include being vengeance, the night and also kicking people in the face.Something Batman probably doesn’t enjoy so much is seeing the trailer for his new film leak, then be turned into an instrument of evil (or at least poor web...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jul 14, 2011 | Uncategorized
Here we have a website claiming you can “Play Super Mario Online”, complete with looped Youtube video and a large “Start Here” button at the bottom of the page.playmario4free(dot)com/networks/vc/index(dot)htmlAs you’re about to see, The...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jul 13, 2011 | Uncategorized
Our friends at Commtouch have blogged about something that is no surprise — spammers using compromised accounts vs. bots (their latest threat report is quite good and worth reading btw). While compromised email accounts (hotmail, yahoo, gmail, etc.) are not new, there...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jul 13, 2011 | Uncategorized
Our good friends over at Symantec love VIPRE so much, they’ve decided to use the logo in their new marketing campaign!We prefer our colors, of course (I like blue) but otherwise, not a bad copy of our logo. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery!Alex...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jul 13, 2011 | Uncategorized
Here’s a roundup post with some snippets from the past day or two along with one or two events you may have missed.Last week, you could (in theory) been searching for the country singer Katie Armiger.No, I have no idea who she is. Anyway, this is what you would...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jul 11, 2011 | Uncategorized
Update: Looks like we’re all clear — all links have been removed.Well, this is certainly a busy time for the porn/malware bad guys. The same folks who apparently spammed Sourceforce with porn and mawlare redirects are now doing it on, of all places,...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jul 11, 2011 | Uncategorized
Recent reports of “imported hardware entering the US with hidden malware” are grossly exaggerated.Occasionally, a virus creeps into some piece of hardware or software, but that’s because of shoddy manufacturing or just honest mistakes (it’s for this reason that every...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jul 10, 2011 | Uncategorized
Browser specific scams have mostly been seen in the realm of rogue AV attacks, but here’s one (located at update-center(dot)myftp(dot)org) that checks out your browsing credentials then sends you to one of the below locations for a fake flash update:IE8:...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jul 10, 2011 | Uncategorized
Looks like we have another one for the “things that probably shouldn’t be on Tumblr” pile. This is a blank profile located at simpleonlinecareerlibrarydv(dot)tumblr(dot)com:Click to EnlargeHowever, should you arrive at the following link,...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jul 9, 2011 | Uncategorized
Follow-up from our blog yesterday: The Search option is now no longer available on the Microsoft Safety and Security center. The searches themselves are still there, just checking on Google. Nevertheless, I have every reason to believe that Microsoft will...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jul 8, 2011 | Uncategorized
Update: Looks like we’re all clear — the searches have been cleaned-up..The Microsoft Safety and Security Center has become a hot bed of porn redirects, and sleazy porn sites invariably lead to malware. And there’s an interesting twist to how...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jul 7, 2011 | Uncategorized
Update: Looks like we’re all clear — malicious links have been removed.A month ago, we blogged about FakeRean (a very nasty malware/rogue antivirus) being served by PHP spam off of Sourceforge.net. We figured something would happen.Well,...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jul 5, 2011 | Uncategorized
While the status of Google+ invites keep switching from “live to dead to back to gone again”, it’s worth noting that you’ll see some weird and wonderful things while hunting for invites.You’ll also see this:Click to Enlarge”Free...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jul 4, 2011 | Uncategorized
+1 if you immediately understood the title before reading the article. +2 if you still have no idea by the end of it.There’s a Spanish language Facebook fakeout knocking around this week, a variation on a tried and tested scam theme (aren’t they...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jul 2, 2011 | Uncategorized
Our friends at Sophos has found what we consider as, probably, the first crime ever targeting Google+: fake pharma spam. Due to the high demand of G+ invites being thrown at Google, to the point that the company actually had to cease the invitation process for...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jun 30, 2011 | Uncategorized
A hazard of cloud-based services is reputation hijacking — using the cover of a legitimate cloud service to do bad things. For example, you can’t block the domain “Google.com”, because it has legitimate purposes. So a network...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jun 29, 2011 | Uncategorized
I thought it might be useful to give examples of some of the spam we’re seeing drop into mailboxes instead of the nearest supernova. Without further ado…1) “Facebook Survey Gift Invite”.Click to Enlarge”You’ve been invited to...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jun 29, 2011 | Uncategorized
WWF Philippines’ site is hacked by some Madoka (it’s an anime) fan. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.The above was the actual tweet from a chain of retweets that reached my stream and got us (Chris and I) looking into this matter. This one below...
