TROYAK-AS: the cybercrime-friendly ISP that just won’t go away

Over the past week, security researchers and vendors have been playing a cat-and-mouse game with a cybercrime-friendly ISP known as TROYAK-AS, one of the key “phone back” locations for the command and control servers of Zeus-serving malware campaigns for Q1, 2010.

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“Obama Accident” Instant Messages Used to Spread Malware

A new attack spreading BUZUS malware via Windows Live Messenger has been spotted. Trend Micro researcher Loucif Kharouni spotted the messages spreading via the popular instant-messaging (IM) application, samples of which can be seen below.

The text before the links are in French and tells users to click the link that follows. Some of [...]

Mac OS X SMS ransomware – hype or real threat?

In need of a fresh example that cybercriminals are actively looking for ways to monetize infected Mac OS X hosts? Early-stage discussions at several web forums, including a PoC, offer an insight into the potential to monetize OS X infected hosts using SMS-based ransomware.

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