The KOOBFACE botnet continuously evolves to keep on generating profit for its perpetrators. The fact that the botnet is still alive shows that the cybercriminals behind it are making a fortune off it. In our effort to conduct research on and to monitor the latest developments made to the KOOBFACE botnet, we have noticed several changes [...]Post from: TrendLabs | Malware Blog - by Trend MicroThe Evolution of KOOBFACE: A Web 2.0 Botnet [...more]
Italian bank Banca Popolare di Sondrio has become phishers’ new target with the discovery of a spammed message containing a link to the supposed bank’s Internet banking site, SCRIGNO. As with previous bank-related phishing attempts, clicking the link leads users to a site that looks very much like the legitimate Internet service’s login page. The site [...]Post from: TrendLabs | Malware Blog - by Trend MicroPhishing Scam Targets Italian Bank [...more]
By Doctor Security If you’re like me, you probably have friends who are struggling to make ends meet in these challenging economic times. Some of my buddies save money by using free antivirus software. This is not something I recommend... [...more]
The TDSS malware family in itself is already a big threat to users. Known for its rootkit capabilities, TDSS constantly evolves to include more sophisticated means in order to hide its presence in an affected system. The Mebroot malware family, on the other hand, is noted for inflicting master boot record (MBR) infections. TrendLabsSM engineers recently [...]Post from: TrendLabs | Malware Blog - by Trend MicroMebroot Variant Behaves Like TDSS [...more]
Doctor Security In nature, animals are provided with different forms of defenses to protect themselves from predators. Some creators can fly away, others can run super fast, and many have sharp horns, tusks, or beaks to wield aggressively against an... [...more]
It's irony when malware that drops and installs Chinese IME into victim`s system pretends to be a regular AV component. It was first discovered on common Chinese website infected by "Aurora" exploit. This exploit execution causes that malware file qi.exe... [...more]
ESET Smart Security and ESET NOD32 Antivirus v4.2.40 and ESET Authentication Server v1.0.26.0 have been released in Bulgarian, Korean and Romanian for licensed users, as well as trial versions of ESET NOD32 Antivirus, with other languages to ... [...more]
AMSTERDAM, May 19, 2010 – AVG Technologies, developers of the world's most popular free anti-virus software, today announced that it has updated its browser toolbar to include secure access to Facebook, Skype and weather updates. The toolbar function... [...more]
Autorun.inf is prevalently used by worms as an autostart technique. Through this file, the worm is able to automatically execute whenever an infected drive is accessed. Over time, users have been able to think of workarounds to manually remove the malware file while preventing it from executing. Some of these are: Using command prompt to manually [...]Post from: TrendLabs | Malware Blog - by Trend MicroNew AutoRun Worms Utilize Action Key [...more]
AMSTERDAM, May 18, 2010– AVG Technologies, developers of the world's most popular free anti-virus software, today revealed research into a very aggressive, expansive push by rogue applications on Facebook this past weekend. AVG researchers indicated ... [...more]
