Fake IT Email Notification Spreads Malicious PDF

TrendLabs received reports of a suspicious email that claims to be an IT notification, informing users that their mailbox settings have been changed. This email has a PDF attachment that supposedly contains instructions that users need to read before updating their settings. This attack is similar to many we have seen previously purporting to [...]

Public Bank of Malaysia Phished

TrendLabsSM recently spotted a phishing site that specifically targets Public Bank of Malaysia’s clients. Public Bank is one of Malaysia’s leading financial institutions that operate in other parts of Asia as well, including Hong Kong, China, and Cambodia. The phishing page mimics Public Bank’s official login page to make users believe that it is [...]

At a Glance: New ZeuS Variants

The ZeuS/ZBOT botnet has been entrenched in the cybercrime business for a long time now and has continuously evolved and improved. Given the vast number of toolkit versions readily available in the underground, the features ZeuS possesses continues to thwart both antivirus and other security solutions as well as the efforts made by the [...]

‘Google even knows what you’re thinking’

Privacy advocate Moxie Marlinspike used the spotlight of the SOURCE conference here to call attention to Google’s data harvesting practices, warning that the search engine giant can mine information to figure out even what Web surfers are thinking about.

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Recovering from the Flawed McAfee Update

Nothing ruins an IT administrator’s day faster than a software update from a security vendor wreaking havoc on the computer systems it is intended to protect. That is exactly the predicament faced by many IT administrators today when a flawed McAfee update rendered Windows XP PC’s essentially useless.

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