From the Sunbelt Software blog: Don’t go there: The Zeus Trojan is being spread through a major spam campaign under the guise of a notice from the IRS. Spam emails contain a subject line of “Notice of Underreported Income.” If users follow a link in the spam or open an attachment they get infected with [...]
Via Eset’s Threat Center Blog: Australia’s Internet Industry Association (IIA) is working on best practices for isolating computers with bots on them (http://iia.net.au/index.php/initiatives/isps-guide.html) At the same time, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is also drafting a document about the same thing (http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-oreirdan-mody-bot-remediation-03) If these recommendations are adopted then people who have bots on their [...]
From the ESET Threatblog: The Journal of West Virginia reported yesterday that 19-year-old Jonathan G. Parker was charged on Tuesday with felony daytime burglary. He’s alleged to have stolen two diamond rings worth more than $3,500, but to have taken some time out to access his Facebook account on the victim’s laptop. If the report [...]
Via Internet Storm Center: Rogue AV programs have become increasingly common in last two years. We at the SANS Internet Storm Center get messages from our readers about new rogue AV sites daily. It is obvious that the bad guys are making (serious?) money with this scamming scheme. There are couple of things interesting about [...]
Check this post FakeAV Generates Own Fake Malware from SophosLabs blog: We’ve all seen FakeAV applications deliberately misreporting malware detection and encouraging the user to buy their “products”. The slew of these fake anti-virus applications has been relentless. My colleague, Pete, has highlighted the importance of taking adequate measures to ensure that you do not [...]
We’ve upgraded WordPress to 2.8.4 to address a significant vulnerability. See http://tinyurl.com/pjtjkd for details. If you’re running WordPress, you should upgrade your installation today!
