Our colleagues in ESET Latin America have just blogged about an interesting botnet creation tool: the original blog is at http://blogs.eset-la.com/laboratorio/2010/05/14/botnet-a-traves-twitter/, by Jorge Mieres and Sebastián Bortnik, Security Analysts. (Mistakes in interpretation are, as usual, down to me!) In the last years we have seen many security incidents driven by botnets and exploiting the technologies

We're now seeing a fiercely concentrated Blackhat SEO campaigns exploiting the McAfee False Positive (FP) problem. Juraj Malcho, our Head of Lab in Bratislava, reports that in a Google search like the one I've screendumped above, he got three malicious hits in the top ten (the same ones captured here: of course, the malicious domain

ESET is not going to try to capitalize on McAfee's unfortunate false positive problem (and nor, I'm sure, is any other reputable vendor). Such problems can arise for any AV vendor: it's an inevitable risk when you're trying to walk the line between the best possible detection of threats and avoidance of false detections (someone please

 ESET Latin America has confirmed that the Koobface variants they're looking at download rogue security software and other trojans from active urls. They include: Win32/TrojanProxy.Small.NEB trojan Win32/PSW.Delf.NSE trojan Win32/Qhost.NTN trojan Win32/Agent.QWU trojan a variant of Win32/Koobface.NCI worm a variant of Win32/Koobface.NCP worm Win32/Adware.Antivirus2009.AA David Harley CISSP FBCS CITP Research Fellow & Director of Malware Intelligence

Our colleagues in ESET Latin-America have reported that a huge new malware distribution campaign is being carried out through the popular social network Facebook. In this instance, it is our old friend the Koobface worm that is being propagated. (For more about Koobface see Randy's post here, and for more about this particular iteration, see

Two new white papers have been posted on the white papers page at http://www.eset.com/download/whitepapers.php. (1) "Ten Ways to Dodge CyberBullets" by David Harley Around New Year it seems that everyone wants a top 10: the top 10 most stupid remarks made by celebrities, the 10 worst-dressed French poodles, the 10 most embarrassing political speeches and

Two new papers have gone up on the ESET White Papers page at http://www.eset.com/download/whitepapers.php. (Strictly speaking, they're not altogether new: they include some material that has previously been blogged here.) The Internet Book of the Dead is a bit different from other papers you’ll find on the ESET white papers page. (Technically, it’s not actually

Update: more resources I picked up on  a security list just now (I'm drowning in email here!) Apologies for any duplication. Update 2: more additions below. @imaguid pointed out in a microblog that there's a pattern to the use of social engineering around disasters like the Haiti earthquake:  "first comes the tragedy, then malware purveyors exploiting the

It is public knowledge that the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was hit in the face which left him with facial injuries, a broken nose and several broken teeth. The video of the attack is circulating on the Internet but at this time, if you search for them on any search engine it is possible

As promised earlier (see http://www.eset.com/threat-center/blog/2009/10/07/https-revisited-spanish-video) an English version of ESET Latin-America’s demonstration video of a phishing attack using HTTPS is now available at http://www.eset-la.com/centro-amenazas/videos/phishing-https-english/.  Those earlier blogs again: http://www.eset.com/threat-center/blog/2009/10/06/ssl-to-certify-web-security-is-not-to-guarantee-it  http://www.eset.com/threat-center/blog/2009/10/04/truth-fiction-and-https   Thanks, Sebastián! David Harley BA CISSP FBCS CITP Director of Malware Intelligence ESET LLC ESET Threatblog (TinyURL with preview enabled): http://preview.tinyurl.com/esetblog ESET Threatblog notifications on Twitter: