Social media has affected business organizations in many different ways through the years and these effects caused the development of a rather complicated relationship between the two. Social media has proven to be an effective marketing tool for businesses. Data collected last year from Fortune’s Global 100 revealed that more than 50 percent of the [...]Post from: TrendLabs | Malware Blog - by Trend MicroMalware Sales Through Social Networks [...more]
Due to their ever-growing popularity, social networks have been a continuous target of cybercriminals to proliferate their malicious schemes. TrendLabsSM received samples of another Facebook spam, this time also taking advantage of the popular micro-blogging site, Twitter. The mail, which poses as a Facebook notification message, uses adult-themed strings to lure users into opening the [...]Post from: TrendLabs | Malware Blog - by Trend MicroSpammers Target Facebook and Twitter at Once [...more]
Cybercriminals have once again used a not-so-new but still a seemingly promising medium for their malware campaigns. Earlier today, ZDNet reported a “new” exploit that targets Skype users. This exploit takes advantage of a vulnerability in a Skype component—EasyBits Extras Manager. While the vulnerability was found and fixed as early as October 2009, many users [...]Post from: TrendLabs | Malware Blog - by Trend MicroMonths-Old Skype Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild [...more]
Heads-up for users still running Windows XP: The unpatched Help Center flaw revealed last week is now out in the wild and being used to launch malware attacks against target users. This new zero-day exploit takes advantage of the vulnerability that exists in the Microsoft Windows Help Center, a default Microsoft application that allows users [...]Post from: TrendLabs | Malware Blog - by Trend MicroMicrosoft Help Center Zero-Day Exploits Loose [...more]
Last week, we had two major mass compromises. The first one hit more than 100,000 websites, including major news sites like the Wall Street Journal and the Jerusalem Post. The second campaign was much smaller, hitting only around 1,000 pages, and also lacked similarly high-profile victims although the casino firm Ameristar was on the victim [...]Post from: TrendLabs | Malware Blog - by Trend MicroPasswords Matter—The Hidden Risks “Minor” Info Stealers Pose [...more]
With the underground economy still thriving, cybercriminals will surely use any method such as Canadian pharma spam runs to facilitate their information theft operations. Canadian pharmacy sites are known to be used by scammers to sell a wide range of fake medicines usually for impotence and other serious medical conditions at much lower prices compared [...]Post from: TrendLabs | Malware Blog - by Trend MicroSpoofed Trend Micro Alert Leads to Canadian Pharma Site [...more]
Last week, we talked about the Tequila botnet that was targeting Mexican users. Since our last post, there has been one big development—the botnet appears to have been taken down by the owners themselves. On Thursday (June 3, 2010), the botnet’s controllers sent out new instructions to all of the active bots. One of the [...]Post from: TrendLabs | Malware Blog - by Trend MicroBye, Bye Tequila Botnet [...more]
Malicious JavaScript code used to be contained in single .JS or .HTML files, which made malicious JavaScript analysis and detection pretty straightforward. However, in the past few days, a couple of distinct Web compromises caught my attention because the codes involved used the multipart malicious JavaScript technique. In this technique, malicious JavaScript codes can be [...]Post from: TrendLabs | Malware Blog - by Trend MicroIncreased Use of MultiPart Malicious JavaScripts in the Wild [...more]
Spammers seem to be on something of a Twitter rampage of late. They have sent out a wide variety of spammed messages recently that all appear to be from Twitter: The first mail sample shows a phishing attack mounted against users. The second contains links to a malicious file that is already detected as TROJ_FAKETWT.A. [...]Post from: TrendLabs | Malware Blog - by Trend MicroBogus Twitter Spam Hits Inboxes [...more]
Cybercriminals have found yet another way to grab users’ attention. This time, they posed as members of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from Washington D.C. to scam users with a spammed message. As in any other scam, the email sender posed as someone from a legitimate body in this attack. The sender claims to be [...]Post from: TrendLabs | Malware Blog - by Trend Micro419 Scam Resurfaces with FBI Spam [...more]
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