Spooky Halloween – scareware or crimeware?

With all the “spooky” cybercrime trends taking place on a monthly basis, such as the death of CAPTCHA, the suspicious idleness of the Conficker botnet, the clear presence of government-tolerated and upcoming government-sponsored botnets, the inevitable migration from using malicious infrastructure to entirely relying on legitimate one, followed by the cyber terrorism myopia that [...]

Taiwan: Spear Phishers Target Gmail Users

Trend Micro threat analysts found several phishing sites registered in China that target specific people or companies. The said email can customize phishing URLs using the names of intended recipients via a technique called “spear phishing.” Spear phishing has been used by cybercriminals before in attacks that involved specific targets. In the previous post, “So Is It [...]

Social Engineering Watch: Spam Leads to Canadian Pharmacy Sites

Trend Micro researchers found over 200 email samples that spamvertised male sexual enhancement pills. These bore subjects like “Re: Go wild in bedroom,” “Re: Let your lever straight up,” and “Re: Be her concrete-rod satisfier” and contains a URL that points to all-too-familiar Canadian pharmacy websites.

While spammed messages that lead to Canadian pharma sites [...]