Seen in the wild: New scam pretends to be Google
No news in having another trojan doing typical host redirects, but in this case, we found the use of Google’s name to be mildly interesting
Friends infect friends with this new instant messenger worm
A relatively new naughty little worm courtesy of Seedcorn Advertising (IM-Worm.TopInstalls.A) does nothing noticeable upon infection
Oops: Macvirus.org hosting prOno malware fest
Just a bit of irony that I got today from my colleague Juha Kauppinen.
Rash of new spam pushes malware disguised as screensavers
Over the past 24 hours, we’ve have seen a rash of malicious spam pushing screensavers that are, in reality, backdoor trojans.
Hard core prOn invasion on Google Groups
We’ve just started seeing a hard-core porn invasion on Google Groups.
Thank you sir, may I have another: Google Groups invasion continues unabated
There is another Google Groups invasion, with a different twist than the porn angle: spam blogs.
Red Hat legal argument on tenuous ground?
Readwriteweb has a story today on Red Hat sending a cease and desist letter to DataPortability.org over their use of an “infinity” logo.
The hoax that just won't die
There’s been a hoax for quite a while that Dell installs a hardware keylogger (Snopes entry here).
Incredible -- C-NetMedia still continues its grossly deceptive practices
It was last week, on the 14th, that Ben Edelman showed that C-NetMedia (not to be confused with CNET) was using highly deceptive advertising to lure people to its sites.
Dangerous new fake American Greetings spam
Clicking on the spammed link takes you to a page that tells you that you need to update your Flash player to view the card.
Topical emails continue with rootkit-pushing trojan
Again, pushing a spamzombie trojan (Trojan.Srizbi).
One more attack on the privacy and freedoms of Americans
Ok, here come the letters and comments from angry fellow bloggers and readers.
Sick malware for sick minds
Creative headlines. Not-so-nice malware payload, using, as usual, a Google redirect (VT report here).
Ok, this feels odd: In praise of the MySpace abuse team
It seems that when I report an abuse to abuse@myspace.com, something actually happens. (We’ve all learned to practically give up on abuse mailboxes.
Adobe PDF exploit
We are seeing users get infected with Trojan.Zonebac, which can only mean successful exploitation by one of the current Adobe PDF vulnerabilities (we know of at least one vulnerability that is apparently being used in malicious banner advertisements).
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