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- Michael Jackson's death themed malware campaigns spreading
- The sudden death of Michael Jackson quickly opened a window of opportunity for cybercriminals to capitalize on. With a malicious spam campaign, blackhat SEO search results poisoning which is serving scareware within the first 100 search results for Michael Jackson's death, and an opportunistic participant in Zango...
- Tags: Malware, Social Engineering, Spam, Michael Jackson, Malware Campaign, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, E-mail, Viruses And Worms, Security, Online Communications, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-06-26
- 56th variant of the Koobface worm detected
- Researchers from PandaLabs are reporting on the detection of the 56th variant of the Koobface worm (Boface.BJ.worm), spreading across Facebook, Tagged, Friendster, MySpace, MyYearBook, Fubar.com, Hi5 and Bebo since May, 2008. According to the company, the growth of Koobface related infections is as high as 1,200% since...
- Tags: Infection, Malware, Social Engineering, Worm, MySpace, Koobface, Cyberthreats, Social Networking, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Web Site Development, Security, Viruses And Worms, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-05-15
- Google: no evidence of a Gmail vulnerability
- Following the speculations on the resurrection of what's thought to be an already fixed Gmail flaw which could assist in domain name hijackings, yesterday Google commented that their investigation indicated that the recent domain hijacks should be attributed to a phishing campaign, rather than to a Gmail flaw. The phishers...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Gmail, Attacker, Vulnerability, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, E-mail Providers, Security, Viruses And Worms, Spam And Phishing, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-11-26
- Fake WordPress site distributing backdoored release
- Can you find five differences between these two sites? Wordpresz.org may indeed look like WordPress.org, but the 2.6.4 release it's distributing is on purposely backdoored in order to steal the content of cookies from those who have installed it, potentially leading to to hijacking of their WordPress blogging platforms for...
- Tags: Wordpress, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-11-06
- News to know: Microsoft's outlook, emergency patch; Apple; Amazon's cloud; Yang speaks
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: Fake Steve Jobs heart attack story posted by teenager. Bloomberg: Jobs Said to Be Targeted by Teen in Heart-Attack Tale Jason O'Grady: SEC examining teen's motive in fake...
- Tags: Layoff, Larry Dignan, Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Workforce Management, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Human Resources
- Blog posts 2008-10-24
- Suit claims Google makes millions on typosquatting
- Suit claims Google makes millions on typosquattingSuit claims Google makes millions on typosquattingLOL! Burn Google Burn!RE: Suit claims Google makes millions on typosquattingThey also make Millions with supporting other cybercriminals who even actively abuse Google's own systems like AdSense. Sometime calling themselves "SearchEndineOptimiyers" or SOE, what they really are is...
- Tags: Web site development, Google Inc., Google Makes
- Discussion threads 2008-10-23
- Suit claims Google makes millions on typosquatting
- Harvard Biz School prof Ben Edelman is suing Google over a deal with typosquatters to place ads on those sites. There are some 10,000 cybersquatting domains out there, according to Citizen Hawk. But that sounds wildly low. Edelman estimates there are a million or more. And Edelman estimates Google...
- Tags: Google Inc., Ben Edelman, Cybersquatting, Richard Koman, Class Action
- Blog posts 2008-10-23
- 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
- News to know: Google; Typosquatting; Apple; IDF
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Garett Rogers: Google gains share again, should Microsoft give up? Christopher Dawson: Can Dell compete on cost anymore? Dancho Danchev: Typosquatting the U.S presidential...
- Tags: Google Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Open Source, Security, Networking, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-22
- Typosquatting the U.S presidential election - a security risk?
- Cybercriminals know how to take advantage of anticipated traffic by abusing the momentum of a particular event, like the U.S presidential election in this case. Everyone, from scammers coming up with legitimately looking donation sites that they will later on spam, to the a bit more complex blackhat search engine...
- Tags: Campaign, Domain, Internet, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- Fake ImageShack site serving malware, links distributed over IM
- In a combination of domain typosquatting next to spoofed image files, malware authors managed to successfully impersonate ImageShack, the 5th largest image hosting website on the Internet, the result of which is a malware campaign circulating over MSN, enticing users into infecting themselves by clicking on the spammed links to...
- Tags: HTTP, IM, Malware, Social Engineering, ImageShack, ImageShack Site, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-06-11
- Top ten worst spam registrars notified by ICANN
- In a reponse to the recently released cluster analysis of the top 10 worst domain registrars in terms of spam and junk content hosting domains, the ICANN has taken steps to approach the non-compliant registrars : More than half of those registrars named had already been contacted by ICANN...
- Tags: Registrar, ICANN, Domain, Domain Name, Domain Names, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-05-26
- Click fraud - here we go again
- Click fraud - here we go againMaybe contracts are already specific enoughGreat post. There's a lot I can immediately agree with -- the know-your-partner idea, the fraud tax, etc. Almost all of your piece, in fact.But I wonder whether the contracts actually need to get much more specific,...
- Tags: Spyware, Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, Litigation, click fraud
- Discussion threads 2006-10-15
- River Registration Run?
- Marty Schwimmer has Some URGENT Free Advice For Companies That Provide RSS Feeds:I wonder if people might get it into their heads that registering a domain name in the form [media brand name]RIVER.COM might be a good idea. It might therefore be worth the $7 were you to register...
- Tags: Marty Schwimmer
- Blog posts 2006-08-25
- Spyware popping porn in all the wrong places
- Spyware popping porn in all the wrong placesUnbelievableIt seems like no matter how hard society tries, smut never goes away.TyposquattingSeaking about typosquatters, here is a free website that detects whether your domain has been typosquatteredhttp://veralab.com/dnsdomainsearch/typosquatters.jspHere is what you need to do: 1. Type your company domain name into...
- Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, domain, spyware
- Discussion threads 2006-06-23
- Spyware popping porn in all the wrong places
- Ben Edelman has another revealing write up -- this time on ad networks, spyware and porn pop-ups and these are not happening on adult oriented sites. It's happening on sites where sexually-explicit content would not be anticipated. Ben explains in detail, including packet logs, video and screenshots,...
- Tags: spyware, advertisement, Ben
- Blog posts 2006-06-22
- Microsoft to buy a stake in Yahoo?
- Microsoft to buy a stake in Yahoo?GoodIf you want to live a life of fear then be scared. We all would like to know how Microsoft has the monopoly on search/small business services? And how is this no competition? The article clearly states its to bring competition to...
- Tags: Web browsers, SEARCH, Investment, Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc., MSFT
- Discussion threads 2006-05-03
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