Meteor Shower and New Moon Lead to FAKEAV

TrendLabs threat analysts found another FAKEAV campaign piggybacking on the Leonid meteor shower and the much-anticipated sequel to the Twilight saga, New Moon. Users searching for news and updates using the keywords “meteor shower tonight november 16 time” and “New Moon premiere live stream” end up with poisoned search results. These results redirect users to [...]

Payment Request Spam Contains Malware

TrendLabs researchers received spammed messages purporting to have come from various companies such as eBay, J.P. Morgan Chase and Co., and Colgate-Palmolive, among others. The email bore the subject, “Payment request from,” and informs users about a certain recorded payment request.

The spammed message even gave users two options—to either ignore the email if the payment request has [...]