After Fake Blogs Come The Fake Forums

Apparently fake blogs that deliver malware are not enough. We discovered fake forums that do the same thing as well. Some 300 forums created through a popular Web site adverstise porn and lead users to the following URLs:

hxxp:// {BLOCKED}g.proboards54.com/ hxxp:// {BLOCKED}7f2e2.proboards80.com/ hxxp:// {BLOCKED}84e57.proboards81.com/ hxxp:// {BLOCKED}5ade.proboards82.com/ hxxp:// {BLOCKED}e714cf.proboards83.com/ hxxp:// {BLOCKED}f9af.proboards84.com/ hxxp:// {BLOCKED}6b77.proboards85.com/ hxxp:// [...]

EA Spore backlash could help end DRM

Guest editorial by Oliver Day The backlash over DRM has finally started to gather serious momentum. Everyday consumers started a campaign to give the highly anticipated game Spore one-star ratings on Amazon. Thousands of Amazon users labeled Spore a poor choice because of the SecuROM DRM system that is forced onto PC users machines [...]

Flying Phish

Do you want to go to US for a vacation? For the obvious convenience, most travelers already buy airline tickets online. Beware, though, because as Advanced Threat Researcher Paul Ferguson has discovered the following American Airlines phish it seems a unique profit opportunity for malware writers is emerging:

Figure 1. American Airlines phishing page [...]