Author: Alex Eckelberry
Clever new spam ruse
A new method of spamming is being used by the typical Viagra/Levitra/Cialis crew
Blizzard of US Presidential malware
Following on F-Secure’s blog entry today, we’re certainly seeing a fair number of these. Subject lines include
Let's stop capitalizing "trojan"
If you write about malware, how many times a day do see something like this?
Social media and privacy
Shelly Palmer blogs about privacy and Twitter, as regards marketing companies mining the data:
New rogue: Win Defender 2009, Seen in the wild: Clever Bebo phish
More about another nasty Total Defender 2009 Clone as well as a Bebo Phishing website
Security Tidbits : No, we're not at worm stage... (yet) and Just some comments on MS08-067
Looking at the particular trojan that blog mentioned, it seems to me to be a trojan related to the MS08–067 attacks that I took a quick look at this morning
Security Tidbits : AntiSpyware XP 2009, Pro Antispyware 2009
AntiSpyware XP 2009 is a clone of XP AntiSpyware 2009 rogue security application. This rogue belongs to WinReanimator family
Seen in the wild: Skype spam and Phishing Cooperation
Cooperation improves phishing takedowns. No surprise.
WinDefender 2008 with a sidebar
Nifty, the Windefender 2008 has a pretty little sidebar to add to the illusion that it’s a normal product (Windefender isn’t itself a new rogue security program, we just thought the sidebar was something interesting).
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