Koobface worm joins the Twittersphere

Cybercriminals are experimenting with a new feature introduced in one of the latest Koobface variants – the ability of the worm to hijack the Twitter accounts of infected users and post tweets in an attempt to infect their followers. According to researchers from TrendMicro, once the infected user attempts to log into Twitter, Koobface [...]

Zero-day MPEG2TuneRequest Exploit Leads to KILLAV

Earlier today, TrendLabs has been alerted of a zero-day exploit in the Microsoft Video streaming ActiveX control MsVidCtl. Around 967 Chinese websites are reported to be infected by a malicious script that leads users to successive site redirections and lands them to download a .JPG file containing the exploit. Trend Micro detects it as [...]