FAKEAV Goes Open Source… Or Not?

In the recent FAKEAV spam campaign, I realized something was off. Once the user clicks the URL and gets the bogus Antivirus 2010 up and running on the system, additional files are added. The files I found added are related to ClamAV, the open source AV toolkit for UNIX. The files include the ClamAV [...]

Windows 7? No Problem for Trend Micro Users

Microsoft’s new OS, Windows 7, was made available to the general public earlier today. To say that this was eagerly anticipated is an understatement, however, as in the United Kingdom, pre-orders on Amazon for copies exceeded both the last book of the Harry Potter series as well as the Nintendo Wii. This made it the biggest grossing pre-ordered [...]

ZBOT and a CapitalOne Phish

In this most recent spam campaign, our spam traps caught an uncanny combination of a CapitalOne phish and a ZBOT variant. Below is a screenshot of an email sample making the rounds:

The spam campaign would have you believe that you would need to install a Digital Certificate in order to use CapitalOne’s website. [...]