Security Tidbits : World War 3 spam, New Rogues: PersonalAntiSpy Free and AntiVirus Lab 2009

Some news about a Codec Trojan that warns that the world is about to come to an end

MON 06 OCT. 2008 |Featured in: Hackersblog

Rogue Mania

Rogue Mania brought to you by Innovagest 2000.

TUE 30 SEPT. 2008 |Featured in: Hackersblog

Report blasts online trustmarks

A lengthy, but very interesting write-up on trustmarks (BBB Online, Trust Guard, TRUSTe, etc.)

FRI 26 SEPT. 2008 |Featured in: Hackersblog

Spammed trojan downloads rogue antispyware

This is something making the rounds right now

FRI 26 SEPT. 2008 |Featured in: Hackersblog

World War 3 spam

This is particularly nasty spam pushing a fake codec trojan

THU 25 SEPT. 2008 |Featured in: Hackersblog

Scam sites update VI

A new batch of Security Scam Hijacker sites

THU 25 SEPT. 2008 |Featured in: Hackersblog

Scam sites update V

The endless supply of Zlob Trojan parades the internet once again with their new scam sites

SAT 20 SEPT. 2008 |Featured in: Hackersblog

So… what kind of domains are on Intercage?

Gary Warner wanted to find out and has now posted the Mother of all Lists of (almost) all Intercage domains

TUE 16 SEPT. 2008 |Featured in: Hackersblog

EstDomains declares global war on malware

Wow.  Just… wow

MON 15 SEPT. 2008 |Featured in: Hackersblog

New Rogues: The Clone Mania

List of new cloned rogue security products.

THU 11 SEPT. 2008 |Featured in: Hackersblog

Scam sites update II

Zlob Trojan Distributing site

THU 11 SEPT. 2008 |Featured in: Hackersblog

Scam sites update

Zlob Trojan Distributing site

WED 10 SEPT. 2008 |Featured in: Hackersblog

Using Microsoft's Log Parser

If you’re interested in forensics or log file analysis, Dave Kleiman has posted some useful information on using Microsoft’s Log Parser in forensics

SAT 30 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: Hackersblog

XP Antivirus 2008 now with sploits, Google Adwords affected

I’ve blogged before about the problem of Google Adwords pushing Antivirus XP Antivirus 2008

THU 28 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: Hackersblog

419 scams now through Plaxo

Cute way of bypassing filters through a trusted system.

THU 28 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: Hackersblog

Folks, this is the new wave: SWF file redirects continue

In an earlier blog post, I mentioned that spammers are now using Shockwave Flash (SWF) files to avoid detection (similar in nature to the trick of using Google redirects, etc. in the past)

THU 28 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: Hackersblog

A lot of swf files...

Follow-up from my blog post yesterday on SWF files being used in spam

THU 28 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: Hackersblog

Calumet Township Trustee's Office redirects to malware

Lots of pages over at the Calumet Township Trustee’s Office, redirect to pages pushing XP Antivirus.

THU 28 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: Hackersblog

The continuing problem of malware being advertised in Google Adwords

Google continues to have a problem with malware being advertised in Google Adwords, in this case, for the trojan Antivirus XP 2008

SAT 23 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: Hackersblog

Seen in the wild: Spam using swf files to avoid detection

Dissasembled, the output is actually this

FRI 22 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: Hackersblog