Storm is back in the festive season spreading some xmas and new year love. They even have a new year greeting site ready for spreading New Year related Storm Worm variants.
Social Engineering again, people are always more susceptible during holidays, I guess they are happy and less paranoid.
The Storm Worm gang are spreading seasonal ill-will. [...]
It looks like the malware guys are indeed getting more tricky, and this time it has an effect on multiple parties. It deprives Google of the impressions from the adverts and potentially can infect surfers with some nasty malware.
Again it’s using the hosts file, redirecting Google’s own ads to those from a nefarious source.
A security [...]
A new worm has hit Google’s Orkut and it seems to be hitting it pretty hard, it’s infected via the scrapbook feature and is adding hundreds of thousands of users, similar to the Myspace worm (Samy) that hit in October 2005.
It seems to be fairly unmalicious, more of a ‘look at me – see what [...]
Recently a new Trojan popped up that mimics the Windows activation interface, phishing for credit card details and even the PIN number.
The Trojan itself isn’t particularly advanced technically, it’s mostly just a social engineering attack.
Symantec is reporting on a Trojan horse that mimics the Windows activation interface.
What they are calling Trojan.Kardphisher doesn’t do most of [...]
It seems like people that make malware are getting more specific nowadays, the are no longer writing random self-propagating worms or trojans just for the sake of knowledge or notoriety.
Far more common nowadays is malware for specific purposes to capture login or banking details for certain sites or organisations.
This time it’s a custom trojan targetting [...]
Ah another trojan, this time targeting MSN Live logins for. The trojan has been made public by some kind citizen calling himself “Our Godfather” on the BitTorrent network.
The sad thing is…I guess it works and hundreds of people will have installed it.
Malware designed to steal users’ Windows Live Messenger password has been released onto the [...]
Social Engineering again, someone praying on xmas spirit and good will to spread their filthy malware.
It quite often happens during festive times, someone hatches a new worm and sends it out packaged as a jolly xmas card or game.
A significant worm outbreak over the new year festivities has put paid to the notion we’ve seen [...]
A new worm is spreading fast on the Skype network, it’s activated by a malicious Skype Chat link and it has been seen in the wild in numerous places.
Apparently the dangerous link starts with “Check this!” pointing to a .org/.biz address, if you click the link you’ll become infected.
There have been no reports of unpatched [...]
This is the first part (of many others to come) consisting of basic a introduction to different viruses, some terminology and other aspects required before starting to understand or write viruses…
Definition
A virus is (taken from Windows XP’s Help And Support Center):
A program that attempts to spread from computer to computer and either cause damage [...]
For those that didn’t see, there is a new all singing all dancing ‘light-weight’ Codec in town that is actually a trojan.
Indeed it’s not the first time we’ve seen this kind of thing.
The zCodec software actually messes with your DNS settings.
Users looking for the latest and greatest video software may not just be in danger [...]
