‘Dating Spam’

An odd increase in the number of spam ploys has been noticed amidst the usual threats brought by the upcoming holidays – that are, oddly enough, not even related to this yuletide season. It is ” dating spam” with one of the most common techniques there are — same contents in plain text inviting [...]

Bootkit: the challenge of 2008

The term MalWare 2.0 is often used in our reports to denote a model for the complex malicious programs which appeared at the end of 2006. The most striking examples, and the initial members of MalWare 2.0 are the Bagle, Warezov and Zhelatin worms.

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Scammers Evade Spam Filters by using Email ‘From’ Fields

Scam messages that purport to be from banks, government institutions, or even from certain individuals circulate the Web. Email messages where recipients are told that they have won a prize or are asked for donations would already be familiar to most Web users. Scammers, however, show no signs of slowing down using this technique. [...]

Microsoft to Release Out-of-Band Patch for IE Bug

For the second month in a row, Microsoft is releasing another out-of-band patch to address the much-exploited zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer. The browser bug – a flaw in the data-binding function of IE – prominently featured in the following massive cybercriminal threats:

An online games information-stealing operation that seemed to be targeting Chinese users. [...]

Thousands of legitimate sites SQL injected to serve IE exploit

Once again confirming the trend of having more legitimate sites serving exploits and malware than purely malicious ones, Chinese hackers have been keeping themselves busy during the last couple of days, launching massive SQL injection attacks affecting over 100,000 web sites. The SQL injection attacks serving the just patched Internet Explorer XML parsing exploit, are [...]