Blogspot Mail2Blogger Secret Email Address Used in Spam Attack

A spammed message supposedly from Newegg, a popular online computer hardware/software seller has been found in the wild. It informs users that their online purchase has been charged to their Visa card. It also contains two clickable links that point to the same malicious page, an example of which is http://{BLOCKED}nthenet.net/1.html. Clicking the link [...]

Fake Celebrity Deaths Used in Malicious Spam Run

TrendLabs received a recent spammed message that uses fake news about the death of Hollywood celebrities and famous athletes. The spam came in two varieties: one has a .ZIP file attachment that contains the malicious file news.exe that is detected as TROJ_DLDER.AU. TROJ_DLDER.AU connects to a certain URL to, in turn, download TROJ_BREDOLAB.XY. The [...]

ZeuS Variant Targets U.S. Military Personnel

Today, we saw a malware variant created with the well-known ZeuS toolkit that seems to be targeting members of the U.S. military serving overseas. Targets of this scam will receive an email with the following text: Dear Bank of America Military Bank customer: This letter is to inform you that there is an update [...]

ZeuS Variant targets US Military Personnel

Today, we saw a malware variant created with the well known Zeus toolkit which appears to target members of the US military serving overseas. Targets of this scam will recieve an email with the following text: Dear Bank of America Military Bank customer: This letter is to inform you that there is an update required [...]

Close Encounter with an Internet Scammer

This is just the story of a scam somebody tried to pull on me yesterday. It was too funny not to publish it. The fact is that I’m selling my car so I put it up on Facebook Marketplace. After a few hours, I received a Facebook message from a Caroline McMillan asking for more [...]