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French Android Users Hit again by SMS Trojan
By Nathan Collier Earlier this year, the SMS Trojan Foncy was discovered targeting French-speaking Android Users. Now, we’ve come across a new Trojan targeting them using a similar SMS scam. The app...
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Cybercriminals spamvertise bogus greeting cards, serve exploits and malware
By Dancho Danchev Think you’ve received an online greeting card from 123greetings.com? Think twice! Over the past couple of days, cybercriminals have spamvertised millions of emails impersonating the...
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Beware of Fake Adobe Flash Apps
By Joe McManus Last week Adobe announced that they would no longer be supporting Flash for Android. Adobe will be removing Flash from the Android Marketplace and users should be wary of fake Flash apps...
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Spamvertised ‘Federal Tax Payment Rejected’ themed emails lead to Black Hole...
By Dancho Danchev Remember the IRS (Internal Revenue Service) themed malicious campaign profiled at Webroot’s Threat Blog earlier this month? Over the past 24 hours, the cybercriminals behind the...
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Spamvertised ‘Fwd: Scan from a Hewlett-Packard ScanJet’ emails lead to Black...
By Dancho Danchev Over the last couple of hours, cybercriminals have started spamvertising millions of emails pretending to be coming from HP ScanJet scanner, in an attempt to trick end and and...
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Spamvertised ‘Royal Mail Shipping Advisory’ themed emails serve malware
By Dancho Danchev British users, beware! Cybercriminals are currently mass mailing millions of emails impersonating the Royal Mail Service in an attempt to trick users into executing the malicious...
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Cybercriminals impersonate Intuit Market, mass mail millions of exploits and...
By Dancho Danchev Over the past 24 hours, cybercriminals have spamvertised millions of emails impersonating Intuit Market, in an attempt to trick end and corporate users into clicking on the malicious...
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Cybercriminals spamvertise PayPay themed ‘Notification of payment received’...
By Dancho Danchev Cybercriminals are currently spamvertising millions of emails impersonating PayPal, in an attempt to trick PayPal users into executing the malicious attachment found in the emails....
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Cybercriminals impersonate UPS, serve malware
By Dancho Danchev Cybercriminals are currently mass mailing millions of emails impersonating the United Parcel Service (UPS) in an attempt to trick users into downloading and executing the malicious...
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Spamvertised ‘Wire Transfer Confirmation’ themed emails lead to Black Hole...
By Dancho Danchev Over the past 24 hours, cybercriminals started spamvertising millions of emails impersonating the United Parcel Service (UPS) in an attempt to trick end and corporate users into...
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Intuit themed ‘QuickBooks Update: Urgent’ emails lead to Black Hole exploit kit
By Dancho Danchev It didn’t take long before the cybercriminals behind the recently profiled ‘Intuit Marketplace’ themed campaign resume impersonating Intuit, with a newly launched round consisting of...
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Cybercriminals resume spamvertising bogus greeeting cards, serve exploits and...
By Dancho Danchev Remember the recently profiled 123greetings.com themed malicious campaign? It appears that over the past 24 hours, the cybercriminals behind it have resumed spamvertising millions of...
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Cybercriminals abuse Skype’s SMS sending feature, release DIY SMS flooders
By Dancho Danchev Cybercriminals are masters of abusing legitimate infrastructure for their malicious purposes. From phishing sites and Black Hole exploit kit landing URLs hosted on compromised...
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New Russian service sells access to thousands of automatically registered...
By Dancho Danchev What happens when a cybercriminal cannot efficiently gain access to thousands of working accounts at popular Web services, either through data mining a botnet’s population, or through...
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A Primer for Secure Coding in PHP and MySQL
PHP is an incredibly popular language for creating dynamic web applications — websites such as Facebook are built on it. This can be attributed to many reasons; it is easy to learn, easy to install and...
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Wirenet: The Password-Stealing Trojan Lands on Linux and OS X
No matter what people think about it, the increasing exposure of Linux and OS X to malicious code is strictly related to the worldwide exposure of those operating systems on desktops and laptops. In...
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Spamvertised ‘Your Fedex invoice is ready to be paid now’ themed emails lead...
By Dancho Danchev Over the past 24 hours, cybercriminals have launched yet another massive spam run, this time impersonating FedEx in an attempt to trick its customers into clicking on a malware and...
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New Russian DIY SMS flooder using ICQ’s SMS sending feature spotted in the wild
By Dancho Danchev In order to emphasize on the growing trend of cybercriminals abusing legitimate infrastructure for their malicious purposes, last week, I profiled a DIY SMS flooder using Skype’s...
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Spamvertised ‘US Airways reservation confirmation’ themed emails serve...
By Dancho Danchev Cybercriminals are currently spamvertising millions of emails impersonating U.S Airways, in an attempt to trick users into clicking on the malicious links found in the legitimately...
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A New Zero-Day Vulnerability in Internet Explorer
By Brenden Vaughan A new zero-day vulnerability exploit has been identified in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer web browser versions 9 and below running on Windows XP, Vista and 7. Internet Explorer 10,...
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