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Clever new spam ruse

Alex Eckelberry — Sat, 08 Nov 2008

A new method of spamming is being used by the typical Viagra/Levitra/Cialis crew

Blizzard of US Presidential malware

Alex Eckelberry — Wed, 05 Nov 2008

Following on F-Secure’s blog entry today, we’re certainly seeing a fair number of these. Subject lines include

Let's stop capitalizing "trojan"

Alex Eckelberry — Tue, 04 Nov 2008

If you write about malware, how many times a day do see something like this?

Social media and privacy

Alex Eckelberry — Mon, 03 Nov 2008

Shelly Palmer blogs about privacy and Twitter, as regards marketing companies mining the data:

New rogue: Win Defender 2009, Seen in the wild: Clever Bebo phish

Alex Eckelberry — Sun, 02 Nov 2008

More about another nasty Total Defender 2009 Clone as well as a Bebo Phishing website

EstDomains termination... stayed

Alex Eckelberry — Sat, 01 Nov 2008

Well, this is really frustrating. As Domain Name World says it

Security Tidbits : No, we're not at worm stage... (yet) and Just some comments on MS08-067

Alex Eckelberry — Thu, 30 Oct 2008

Looking at the particular trojan that blog mentioned, it seems to me to be a trojan related to the MS08–067 attacks that I took a quick look at this morning

Security Tidbits : AntiSpyware XP 2009, Pro Antispyware 2009

Alex Eckelberry — Wed, 29 Oct 2008

AntiSpyware XP 2009 is a clone of XP AntiSpyware 2009 rogue security application. This rogue belongs to WinReanimator family

Seen in the wild: Skype spam and Phishing Cooperation

Alex Eckelberry — Tue, 28 Oct 2008

Cooperation improves phishing takedowns. No surprise.

WinDefender 2008 with a sidebar

Alex Eckelberry — Sun, 26 Oct 2008

Nifty, the Windefender 2008 has a pretty little sidebar to add to the illusion that it’s a normal product (Windefender isn’t itself a new rogue security program, we just thought the sidebar was something interesting).

Analysis of German VOIP attack

Alex Eckelberry — Fri, 24 Oct 2008

VOIP security is an issue, but it is often overhyped (and often, misunderstood). However, “security breaches” in this area should be analyzed carefully to understand the potential issues as VOIP is rapidly rolled-out.

Security Tidbits : New rogues Brought to you by Innovagest 2000, PC Defender 2008

Alex Eckelberry — Thu, 23 Oct 2008

Brand new, even more nastier, rogues

Another useless test grabs headlines

Alex Eckelberry — Wed, 22 Oct 2008

I like Secunia, so no hard feelings from our side. But truly, this test they published the other day, showing that “security suites fail exploit tests” is a silly and useless PR stunt.

Security Tidbits : XP AntiSpyware 2009, Antivirus 2010 and SSH Scam sites update

Alex Eckelberry — Tue, 21 Oct 2008

XP AntiSpyware 2009 is a clone of WinReanimator and XPSecurityCenter rogues. This group of rogue security products are usually pushed through Trojan-Downloader.braviax orTrojan.fakealert Trojan.

Security Tidbits: Rapid Antivirus, AOL, non-benign neglect and an update

Alex Eckelberry — Tue, 21 Oct 2008

Rapid Antivirus is a new rogue security product from the SpywareNo family and it’s a near clone ofAntivir64.

Security Tidbits : More Scam Sites, Virus Bulletin 2008 Keynote Address, Google Drunk Mail

Alex Eckelberry — Mon, 20 Oct 2008

A round up of Google brand new Drunk Mail, a fresh new list of scam website and some news from the Virus Bulletin Conference in Ottawa, Canada

DownloadMalware.com : A sick joke

Alex Eckelberry — Sun, 19 Oct 2008

Sometimes people do silly things that can have very devastating consequences.

Security Tidbits : New nasty on the way? New Mac rogue? Plus beware of Some Myspace Friends

Alex Eckelberry — Sat, 18 Oct 2008

There’s a new site out for a rogue security product, NanoAntivirus. This looks like it will be a potential replacement (or additional rogue version) of the pernicious Antispyware Pro XP

Security Tidbits : An abuse-proof CAPTCHA! plus Adios, Intercage and Rogue Mania

Alex Eckelberry — Tue, 07 Oct 2008

Serious spammers get around CAPTCHAs with ease. There's now a solution that's brilliant and highly effective

Security Tidbits : Fake system shutdown message, Spammed trojan downloads rogue antispyware And Back from Virus Bulletin 2008

Alex Eckelberry — Mon, 06 Oct 2008

Installing a fake codec from upgrade-your-software com gets you all kinds of ugly stuff, including the error screen above (which pushes Innovative Marketing's PersonalAntiSpy rogue security product)