UPDATE: At the suggestion of Dan Raywood from SC Magazine I am now offering up a prize to the first person to mail me all the fish I have (kind of) hidden in the blog entry. You can win my splendid USB fridge to keep your prize catch cool.
UPDATE 2: This competition has now closed [...]
A few minutes ago I noticed that a friend of mine had posted the following status to her Facebook profile:
Facebook status
Of course this got my bat senses tingling and I smelled a panic-inducing spiral of insanity brewing, so I thought I’d have a bit of a look around.
Nothing to worry about here as far as [...]
Trend Micro threat analysts from EMEA have found a blackhat search engine optimization (SEO) attack that uses strings with the phrase “free printable” to hijack search traffic by directing it to a rogue search engine.
Our researchers found that search engine queries using the string “free printable” yield results that include compromised websites (see Figure 1). [...]
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Searches for Free Printable Items Lead to Malicious Domains
News involving celebrity deaths (real or hoax) have a habit of spreading across the Internet like wildfire, sensationalizing bits of information to entice readers. So, it is easy to see why pranksters and cybercriminals exploit the fact that people love gossip.
So when rumors of Johnny Depp’s supposed death due to a car crash broke out, [...]
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Hackers Exploit Actor Johnny Depp’s Death Hoax
It has been a year since WORM_DOWNAD.AD (aka “Conficker”) began a trail of system infections around the world. Since then, Trend Micro has detected new variants, including WORM_DOWNAD.KK, which proved to be an upgraded version that enabled the worm to increase the number of domains it generated from 250 to 50,000.
In recent months, things have [...]
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Where in the World Is DOWNAD/Conficker?
