Storm Is Back–With Porn Scam

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

Security researchers Friday warned of a new, massive spam campaign that tries to convince users to install the long-running Storm bot Trojan on their PCs. The new spam blitz is difficult to characterize, said researchers from MX Logic Inc. and F-Secure, because of the nearly 40 different subject heads used by ...

YouTube Addicts Beware

Monday, June 16th, 2008

From Web sites related to online banking, credit unions, financial departments, and social networking sites, phishers are chucking their rods into relatively new territory: video streaming sites. Trend Micro Content Security team learned about this latest (and very interesting) phishing technique a few days back. Several phishing domains (see Figure 1) ...

Vishing Attacks Increasing

Friday, June 13th, 2008

In recent months, Web site compromises have become the most prevalent problem that threatens Internet users from all over. While this trend continues to dominate today’s security issues, let’s not forget about other threats that, although may be not as massive as these attacks, have equally serious ramifications against the ...

Phishers Drop MySpace Bait

Monday, June 9th, 2008

TrendLabs Content Security has come upon a new phishing attack that leads to the download of malware. However, unlike most instances where phishing baits are usually banks, credit unions or other financial institutions, this time it uses the popular social networking Web site MySpace.com. The phishing URL may be contained in ...

A Tour of Risky Web Sites

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

Just over 4% of all Web sites are dangerous, according to a new report. But all bad sites aren’t created equal: Cyber bad guys are more likely to build their sites where it’s easy to do so. The report out today from McAfee, a tech-security company that’s trying to position itself ...