Popular Mexican News Anchor Died!

At least that’s what a new spam run tells you. Email messages claiming to be from Esmas, the largest television network in Mexico and also the world’s largest producer of Spanish language media, inform users that Joaquín López-Dóriga has died in an automobile accident. López-Dóriga is one of the more popular news anchors in [...]

Phishers apply quality assurance, start validing credit card numbers

With the exact number of end users interacting with phishing emails by submitting bogus data still unknown, phishers are on the other hand continuing to apply basic quality assurance processes ensuring that they will be collecting only validated credit card details, and limiting the opportunity for researchers and end users to poison their campaigns. [...]

Adobe nukes ‘critical’ Pagemaker flaws

Adobe has released a patch to fix a pair of critical vulnerabilities in its PageMaker 7 software, warning that a hacker could exploit these flaws to “take control of the affected system.” A third vulnerability, confirmed by Adobe, remains unpatched, the company acknowledged in an advisory.  The flaws affect PageMaker 7.0.1 and PageMaker 7.0.2. [...]

Portuguese YouTube Spam Leads Users To Japan, Then To Malware

Our honeypots captured spammed email messages, written in Portugese, supposedly coming from the popular video sharing website YouTube.

Figure 1. Sample email message (forwarded). The message body translates into the following: Hello, Attention! Someone has published a video you appear in, and your name was mentioned in several videos this evening. To report, Click [...]

‘End of life’ beckons for Firefox 2

If you have not yet upgraded to Firefox 3, keep in mind that Mozilla is very close to pulling the plug on support for older versions of the browser. Support for Firefox 2, which includes security and stability patches, is scheduled to end six months after Firefox 3 shipped (June 17, 2008), which puts the [...]