Microsoft moved the battle against spam-distributing botnets from cyberspace to the court room, winning a temporary restraining order shutting down nearly 300 domains thought to make up the command and control structure for the vast Waledac botnet.
TrendLabs Web content security analysts recently received spammed messages (see Figure 1) purporting to come from the Bank of Nevada. At first, the attack seems just like any other common phishing attack. However, users who are tricked into clicking the URL embedded in the spammed messages will be redirected to a fake Bank of Nevada [...]
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Phishers Hit the Bank of Nevada
A new Twitter worm is making the rounds. If you receive a direct message from a “friend” that contains the following message:
“This you????”
It is likely malicious. Clicking the link, http://twitter.login.{BLOCKED}home.org/login/, will redirect you to a sub page of the said domain. You will then be prompted to log in to your Twitter account.
Take a look [...]
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A New Twitter Worm Is Making the Rounds
Within days of Adobe’s release of out-of-band security updates for both Acrobat and Reader, word now comes from security researcher Aviv Raff, of another new vulnerability in an Adobe product.
The flaw was found in Adobe Download Manager (DLM), an application Adobe uses to deliver common applications (e.g., Flash and Reader) to users’ systems. Normally, it [...]
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New Adobe Download Manager Bug
Whether your business is a big fish or a small-fry home office, you can get hacked just the same, and the stakes are higher than a few canceled credit cards. Here are a few tips to protect your users and your networks–steps that even enterprise-class security specialists may slip up on.
