Brazil: Orkut Phishing Mail Leads to Data-Stealing Malware

We recently captured a spam email that appeared to be from Orkut. It is written in Portuguese, and translates to the following (via GoogleTranslate): Problems with your account. Dear User, We received some complaints against your profile saying you are “using copyrighted material,” and before Orkut disables your account unfairly, asks for you to [...]

AVG Internet Security v8.5.339 Incl Keymaker-EMBRACE

This article has been published at RLSLOG.net – visit our site for full content. EMBRACE brought to us the lastest version of this famous security tool. It contains all what you need to protect yourself against viruses, trojans, malware and so on. Description : AVG Internet Security gives you maximum protection with real-time scanning, [...]

Fake Videos Lead to Fake Flash Player

Cybercriminals have long used videos as a lure to get unknowing users to download and install malware onto their systems. Recently, however, a new variant came up that differs just a little from the usual modus operandi. TROJ_SMALL.UY, at first glance, appears to be a fairly standard malware that’s installed by claiming it’s needed [...]

Gumblar Finds Successor, Continues Info Stealing Spree

Gumblar.{BLOCKED}, the domain to which visitors of reported compromised websites were directed to was taken down, only to be replaced by a new one: Martuz.{BLOCKED}. In an attack which quickly garnered much attention in the security industry, visiting compromised websites were found to redirect the user to Martuz.{BLOCKED}, which leads to a download of a [...]

Pushdo/Cutwail – Traditional AV is Useless (Part 5 of 5)

This is the final part of our report on Pushdo. Read the first, second, third, and fourth part of this report for more information. Over the course of our blog series on Pushdo we have covered some of the key aspects of the threat – how its spams, its stealth components, sniffer and some background [...]