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Phishing and its effects, namely, identity fraud, continue to grow. Unfortunately, it is now easier than ever to carry out these kinds of attacks. Cybercriminals are now using a new tool known as “Super Phisher” (detected by Trend Micro as HKTL_SUPERPHISER) has been released, which creates a phishing page from a legitimate website. The [...] Where news leads, cybercriminals follow. Over the weekend, a massive earthquake hit Chile and killed hundreds of people. This, of course, was soon followed by a blackhat SEO attack that successfully placed multiple malicious links leading to FAKEAV malware on top of the search results for “chile earthquake 2010 wiki.” According to Senior Threat [...] Just when you think old-school network bots are dead, a group of cybercriminals revives them from them grave in the name of Chuck Norris. Dubbed the “Chuck Norris botnet,” based on the Italian comment in its source code, in nome di Chuck Norris (translation: “in the name of Chuck Norris”), this botnet infects vulnerable [...] A new wave of spammed messages posing as mail service notifications targeted antivirus companies, including Trend Micro. These messages ask the receivers to update their mailbox settings by opening and executing the attachment. The two samples above TrendLabs obtained were sent to domains that belonged to Trend Micro. The file attachment does not contain any [...] Google recently announced its latest service Google Buzz, which is considered as the company’s first step in entering the social-networking scene. Naturally, hordes of Internet users became interested in the new application. But such buzz also gained unwanted attention from cybercriminals who already used the service to spread a malware detected by Trend Micro as [...] |
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