Security researchers have identified a new Facebook scam which abuses LinkedIn's open URL redirector in order to bypass spam filters and lend credibility to the fake messages.Users are lured with rogue wall posts that read: "The Video Tweet That Just Ended Justin Biebers Career For Good" and appear to link to pa... |
4 July 2011
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Spammers have began setting up their own URL shortening services in order to hide spam links and make them more resilient to takedowns.The practice of using short URLs in spam is not new and has registered ups and downs over the past couple of years.There was a spike of short URL spam during the last months of 2010, ... |
24 May 2011
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Researchers from Czech security vendor AVAST warn of a new technique used by PDF exploits to evade antivirus detection. It relies on encoding the malicious code as an image object.AVAST first encountered this technique in a malicious PDF file a month ago and has seen it used in limited, but also targeted, attacks sin... |
22 April 2011
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A newly discovered piece of malware specifically targets cloud-based antivirus services and blocks AV products from communicating with the vendor's servers.Dubbed Bohu by Microsoft, the malware originated in China and particularly targets the cloud servers of Chinese antivirus vendors Kingsoft, Rising, and Qihoo... |
21 January 2011
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Security researchers from Symantec warn that a new rogue pharmacy spam run uses HTML and CSS techniques to obfuscate text advertisements and avoid detection.Pharma spam has been steadily making a comeback since Spamit, the world's largest rogue pharmacy affiliate program, closed up shop at the beginning of Octob... |
24 November 2010
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The new 2.1 version of the infamous ZeuS trojan features significant improvements in detection evasion, targeting and injection mechanisms, as well as C&C communication.Security researchers from Trusteer, a provider of secure browsing services, who analyzed the new ZeuS variant, reveal that most of the improvements a... |
20 October 2010
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Security researchers from Trend Micro have identified several routines in the ZeuS sample distributed by the Licat file infector, which attempt to make analysis and detection harder.Trend Micro named the threat TSPY_ZBOT.BYZ and according to its research engineers it is an unusual variant of ZeuS 2.0.ZeuS is a crimew... |
14 October 2010
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Security researchers from Avira have intercepted pharma spam emails purporting to originate from Twitter, which use some interesting HTML techniques to trick anti-spam filters.The rogue messages come with a spoofed "From" field to appear as if they originate from Twitter, and have an "You have 2 urgent messages from ... |
12 October 2010
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Security researchers from Websense have come across a computer trojan, which tries to evade antivirus detection by installing itself as an IME (Input Method Editor). The malware attempt to kill several antivirus programs if they are installed on the victim computer.The new Trojan, which Websense doesn't name in ... |
6 July 2010
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According to a new research paper published by the matousec project, critical protection mechanisms are poorly implemented and can be easily bypassed for the majority of desktop antivirus programs. The problem stems from an unreliable and insecure use of kernel and user mode hooks to get the job done.The research sta... |
8 May 2010
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Security researchers have encountered a malicious PDF exploiting an unfixed vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat, which makes use of complex techniques in order to avoid detection. The document is believed to be part of a highly targeted attack.The malicious file has been analyzed by Bojan Zdrnja, a security res... |
5 January 2010
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