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- Gawker Media tricked into featuring malicious Suzuki ads
- A group of cybercriminals have successfully managed to trick Gawker's ad sales team into featuring malicious ads serving Adobe exploits (CVE-2008-2992; CVE-2009-0927) and scareware, by impersonating a legitimate ad agency inquiring about an upcoming Suzuki ad campaign. According to Gawker Media, the malware distributors were one of...
- Tags: Advertisement, Gawker Media, Suzuki, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-10-27
- Chinese hackers launch targeted attacks against foreign correspondents
- According to an assessment published by the Information Warfare Monitor, Chinese hacktivists politically motivated hackers have recently launched a targeted malware attack against foreign news correspondents attempting to trick them into executing a malware-embedded PDF attachment (Interview list.pdf), coming from a non-existent editor working for The Straits Times. ...
- Tags: China, Malware, Hacker, Attack, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-09-29
- Open source does not work well for bad guys
- Open_Source is the futureOpen_Source 'Linux distro' driven appliances are the future, such as the many companies already doing extremely well.Closed source is a huge lethargic insecure monopoly trying to license/patent everything, however it is failing miserably. Look at the exploits of Windows, $9 Billion in damages last year just from...
- Tags: open source, bad guy, Conficker, Linux, Closed Source
- Discussion threads 2009-09-21
- The ultimate guide to scareware protection
- Throughout the last two years, scareware fake security software, quickly emerged as the single most profitable monetization strategy for cybercriminals to take advantage of. Due to the aggressive advertising practices applied by the cybercrime gangs, thousands of users fall victim to the scam on a daily...
- Tags: Search Engine Optimization, Web, Search Engine, Antivirus, Malware, Social Engineering, Security Software, Search, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Marketing Research, Marketing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-09-13
- The ultimate guide to scareware protection
- Taking into consideration the fact that 99% of ongoing scareware campaigns rely on "visual social engineering", this gallery presents some of the most popular templates used by cybercrime gangs in an attempt to trick the end user into installing the fake security software. by Dancho Danchev
- Tags: Security, Scareware, Fake Security Software, Rogueware, Cybercrime, Screenshots, Photos, Dancho Danchev
- Image galleries 2009-09-13
- What should SAP do with its $5bn war chest?
- A number of recent conversations with the financial analyst community about the ongoing tussle between Oracle and SAP have proved extremely interesting. There is speculation whether SAP will hit the numbers it has internally set itself for Q2 although nothing I hear or see suggests the company has been blown...
- Tags: TIBCO Software Inc., SAP AG, SoftwareAG, OpenText, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-07-06
- Cybercriminals hijack Twitter trending topics to serve malware
- A currently ongoing malware serving campaign across Twitter, is continuing to abuse the momentum offered by Twitter's trending topics in order to trick users into visiting bogus exclusive video sites and infect them with malware. The campaign, spreading since last week, is relying on a growing number...
- Tags: Malware, Video, Twitter, Tweet, Corporate Communications, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Marketing, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-06-09
- Infiltrating WALEDAC Botnet's Covert Operations: Effective Social Engineering, Encrypted HTTP2P Communications, and Fast-Fluxing Network
- The WALEDAC botnet has been involved in an almost continuous spate of spam runs since researchers discovered it in December 2008. Their creators routinely take advantage of various real-world events and occasions, using them as social engineering ploys to trick users into performing certain actions. This botnet has the ability...
- Tags: Trend Micro Inc., Social Engineering, WALEDAC Botnet
- White papers 2009-06-01
- Hacker claims to have phished Steve Jobs Amazon account
- Hacker claims to have phished Steve Jobs Amazon accountHacker claims to have phished Steve Jobs Amazon accountClassicRE: Hacker claims to have phished Steve Jobs Amazon accountOh, yeah, classic alright, classic BS.First of all, this guy has offered no unrefutable proof of his claims. Could all be BS.Second, even if...
- Tags: Hacking, Apple Mac OS X, Operating systems, Cyberthreats, Steve Jobs, Amazon.com Inc., hacker, Apple Inc., Apple Safari, operating system, security
- Discussion threads 2009-05-15
- Apple snags Ex-OLPC security chief
- Apple snags Ex-OLPC security chiefCould it be that Apple likes to change the game?As Harry mentions everyone benefits from Apple's crazy ideas...even if you hate Apple and never use any of their products, you will benefit by what they do. No one else seems to be willing to step outside...
- Tags: Apple OSX, Apple Inc., security
- Discussion threads 2009-05-13
- Microsoft's intelligence security report: The top 5 takeaways
- Microsoft on Wednesday will unveil its sixth Security Intelligence Report and the tome---all 184 pages of it---has a lot of interesting data points culled from the software giant's antivirus applications. Microsoft concludes that rogue security software is a big threat, lost and stolen equipment is a bigger issue than hacking...
- Tags: Software, Trojan Horse, Microsoft Corp., Security Software, Win32/Renos, Win32/FakeSecSen, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Tools & Techniques, Spam, Security, Viruses And Worms, Spam And Phishing, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-08
- Brian Brushwood: Scams, social engineering and straightjackets
- Brian Brushwood attempting to escape from a straightjacket At the live taping of Revision3's Diggnation, Brian Brushwood Twitter opened the show with his legendary magic show. Brushwood is on another Rev3 show called Scam School, where he shows you how to outsmart someone either on the streets...
- Tags: Social Engineering, Trick, Brushwood, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2009-03-15
- Free But Fake: Rogue Anti-Malware
- Most antivirus products are commercial and typically offer, as is the case with ESET solutions, free trial versions for a 30-day period. This limitation is the perfect excuse for criminals to recommend their "Free and magical" antivirus software which guarantees to solve problems that the user does not really have....
- Tags: Eset, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security
- White papers 2009-02-25
- US-CERT warning: Windows does not disable AutoRun properly
- US-CERT warning: Windows does not disable AutoRun properlyXP may be supersededBut there is still going to be a hell of a lot of it out there for a long time to come yet so this really does need patching and fairly urgently if this is truly the case, in the...
- Tags: Operating systems, Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Windows, arbitrary code, malware
- Discussion threads 2009-01-21
- The old "install this codec to see free porn" trick works on Mac too!
- The old "install this codec to see free porn" trick works on Mac too!We don't have enough information to make an informed conclusion.Unfortunately every time we here of malware infested Windows systems never is even the most basic of information provided. I have yet to see the name of the...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Operating systems, NOW IT, Dawson, malware, computer, operating system, codec, Apple Macintosh
- Discussion threads 2008-11-22
- Mac OS X targeted by Trojan and backdoor tool
- Mac OS X targeted by Trojan and backdoor toolOld newsAnd an even older Microsoft-Apologist Straw-man argument.Can I interest you in some sour grapes?...ughI love it how whenever something pops up that targets OSX, PC loyalists like to jump up and down and say "SEE! Stuff can happen to your machines...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, Desktops, Operating systems, Viruses and worms, Windows User, trojan horse, Apple Mac OS, Apple Mac OS X, OSX, Microsoft Windows, Apple Macintosh, malware
- Discussion threads 2008-11-21
- I really don't want to use Windows anymore
- I really don't want to use Windows anymoreThis is just not true ...[i]I'm well aware that if Linux or Mac had greater marketshare, then they would be far more vulnerable to malware attacks.[/i]It would never reach the level of Windows since both Linux and OSX don't have to contend with...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Desktops, Linux, Spyware, adware & malware, Operating systems, Apple Macintosh, ClamWin, Microsoft Windows, virus, malware
- Discussion threads 2008-11-20
- Malware and spam attacks exploiting Picasa and ImageShack
- In the wake of the recent malvertising attacks where malicious flash ads were appearing at trusted web sites, evidence from multiple vendors and researchers indicates that spammers and malware authors have once again switched tactics, and are one again abusing legitimate services such as Google's Picasa and ImageShack. Whereas the...
- Tags: Technique, Spammer, Malware, Google Picasa, Attack, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Security, Viruses And Worms, Spam, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Google Chrome vulnerable to carpet-bombing flaw
- Google's shiny new Web browser is vulnerable to a carpet-bombing vulnerability that could expose Windows users to malicious hacker attacks. Just hours after the release of Google Chrome, researcher Aviv Raff discovered that he could combine two vulnerabilities -- a flaw in Apple Safari WebKit and a...
- Tags: Google Inc., Apple Safari, Web Browser, Flaw, Raff, Microsoft Windows, Web Browsers, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-09-02
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