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Koobface Worm now installing a Trojan horse that spread the rogue AV Security Suite
The Koobface worm has been around for a couple years now being one of the most malicious computer parasites to threaten Facebook users. Over time Koobface, among other popular malware infections, changed into something totally different. This is just what has happened in the past few weeks with Koobface as it aims to install a rogue anti-virus program on to users computers.
Most times computer infections go unnoticed so they can do the dirty work without being interrupted. This works great in the cases that the malware creators want to spread the computer infection to other systems. On the flip side you have those type of computer viruses, or malware, that cause noticeable damages. These type of infections usually do not spread because the system is damaged making it unable to operate in a manor to “send” the virus to another computer. Koobface is now one of those types of parasites.
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Posted July 20th, 2010 in the Category(ies) Cybersecurity | No Response »
Cybercrooks have attacked a Californian Escrow Firm, stealing $465,000 from its bank account after exploiting several online banking security measures.
The security breach occurred in March when the owner of Village View Escrow opened an email attachment about an undelivered UPS package. The attachment was found to install a file housing a Banking Trojan, which immediately records and relays valuable online banking passwords to the cybercrooks.
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Posted June 29th, 2010 in the Category(ies) Trojan | No Response »
Evil hackers are using the FIFA World Cup subject line to spread malware and steal money from computer users.
The World Cup 2010 is the most popular event running right now, and cyber criminals are definitely jumping on the bandwagon. The money-hungry cyber thieves have already taken advantage of the World Cup in more ways than one. Sending World Cup spam leading to phishing sites to spreading malware laden emails has already become popular among hackers.
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Posted June 15th, 2010 in the Category(ies) Spam Alert | No Response »
The official Gmail and Twitter account for Reddit, a popular social bookmarking site similar to Digg and Delicious, was broken into by hackers recently.
Reddit has become a very popular social bookmarking site that users share many edgy or popular links and topics. Many sites or companies such as Reddit still utilize a Gmail accounts which was primarily used when such a company was in its beginning stages. That seems to be the case with Reddit, they kept utilizing the Gmail account because it was the easiest way for several people to view feedback received.
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Posted June 11th, 2010 in the Category(ies) Hackers | No Response »
There has been a massive increase in the number of corrupt domains containing the word facebook recently and computer users must be warned.
Cybercrooks are clearly aware of the success of Facebook, and are now using the social network as an entry point to distribute malware and steal credentials for online banking and credit cards. Facebook has become a platform for hackers and the like to abuse for their cybercrime. So much so that security experts are now saying that Facebook’s biggest threat is cybercrime‎. The most recent malware attack comes in form of hackers spreading a dangerous worm through Facebook’s ‘Like’ feature and now a new clickjacking scam is tricking users into ‘liking’ a page that has a message such as “Paramore n-a-k-ed photo leaked”.
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Posted June 7th, 2010 in the Category(ies) Hackers | No Response »
Three cyberthieves have been nabbed after selling rogue antispyware to millions of unwary computer users worldwide.
The men were arrested for selling more than a million copies of bogus malware detection software in more than 60 countries. The trio consisting of an American in the United States, a Swede, and another American living in the Ukraine, allegedly set up a company called Innovative Marketing, based in Kiev. The company was structured with two of the men serving as CEO and CTO to make it seem legitimate.
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Posted June 3rd, 2010 in the Category(ies) Cybersecurity | No Response »
Social networks, Internet Banking and Online Shopping have become part of most peoples lives nowadays.
Facebook has already reeled in more than 400 million users worldwide. Even in Europe, more than half the population is part of the world’s biggest social network. Exposing personal data and private pictures to the general public on social networks has become the norm. We must all take the necessary precautions to guard our personal information before a cyber criminal is able to use it against.
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Posted May 24th, 2010 in the Category(ies) Internet Security | No Response »
A new malicious Bredolab attack is using fake emails which look like order-confirmation messages from Amazon to spread onto computers.
The attached document contains a corrupt file, which installs a new Trojan from the notorious Bredolab family. The email will claim that “Your order has been paid! Parcel NR:58588-691″ and arrive from refrigeratorser22@rokulabs.com, which is a spoof address. The messages are signed by a fake Amazon employee named Vaughn Montes.
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Posted May 20th, 2010 in the Category(ies) Trojan | No Response »
There has been a big hype in the security press about an attack dubbed KHOBE that was reportedly able to bypass AV protection.
A report by a firm called Matousec claims that “today’s most popular security solutions simply do not work.” Furthermore, the KHOBE vulnerability was slated to avoid detection from most popular antivirus applications.
The attack is described by Matousec researchers as an “8.0 earthquake for desktop security software”, describes a highly potential bypass in the way some parts of some anti-malware products operate on some versions of Microsoft Windows.
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Posted May 11th, 2010 in the Category(ies) Internet Security | No Response »
Yahoo! Messenger (YM) clients beware! A new worm is attacking YM after posing as an attached image.
Users attacked by a new Yahoo! Messenger infection will most likely have an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) botnet already installed on the compromised PC. The new worm uses YM to spread as spam and sends a malicious link (http://[rogue_domain_name]/image.php) to the entire contact list of users logged into YM. Visiting the website will result in a download pop up for a file called ‘IMG87654.JPG-www.myspace.com.exe’ (the number after ‘IMG’ may differ).
Computer security experts say the worm has been detected as W32.Ymfocard.fam.Botnet. W32.Ymfocard.fam.Botnet also uses a default image icon displayed as a file to con hapless victims.
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Posted May 5th, 2010 in the Category(ies) Internet Security | No Response »
