Facebook Invitation and the Olympic Torch
Old hoaxes never die. They just get transplanted to Facebook.
Storm
I take you, XPAntiSpyware, to be my…
One of the most common ways to propagate malware through social engineering is to piggyback it on some attention-catching news event. This can be carried out using a variety of techniques and is certainly nothing new. One infamous example from 2007 was Win32/Nuwar (a/k/a the Storm Worm), which distributed through spam emails with current and/or
New Botnet: Storm Signal?
Pierre-Marc tells me that he has received two malware samples that grabbed his attention due to their resemblance to Storm/Waledac.
Win32/Waledac for Valentine’s Day
As Valentine’s Day is approaching the criminals behind Win32/Waledac have increased their activity. The Valentine campaign started some time ago but the interesting part is only starting for us. The Waledac botnet has been using fast flux for some time now. This means that the IP addresses of the websites used to distribute this malware
Fake Holiday eCards: Are You Surprised?
Yesterday, we started to receive reports of emails pretending to carry links to holiday cards. These emails contain a link that points to a file named ecard.exe. Of course, this executable is not a seasonal holiday card but malware. The reason this wave of malware has attracted our attention is that it is very similar