Phishing School Teaches Lessons on Secure Practices

The Trend Micro Content Security team discovered a phishing attack that used a software company’s website to lure victims into divulging personal information. The compromised site was that of School Website Solutions, which looks like this:

Figure 1. Clean page. Phishers were able to hack the site however. Users who were trying to access [...]

New DOWNAD Generates More URLs

Trend Micro detects yet another variant of the infamous DOWNAD family, WORM_DOWNAD.KK. DOWNAD (also known as Conficker) is one of the more destructive outbreak worms in the Web threat era, with numbers matching that of giant botnets Storm and Kraken. WORM_DOWNAD.KK closely follows the trail of WORM_DOWNAD.A and WORM_DOWNAD.AD (which just late last month [...]

Spammers Recommend Malicious Plans for the Crisis

With the current global economic crisis, it is safe to assume that corporations are probably trying to solicit as many ideas as possible from their work force to help improve their business. Quite unfortunately, it is through this that spammers are trying to solicit victims of their illicit scheme, as they send out spam [...]