Security Tidbits : World War 3 spam, New Rogues: PersonalAntiSpy Free and AntiVirus Lab 2009

Installing a fake codec from upgrade-your-software com gets you all kinds of ugly stuff, including the error screen (which pushes Innovative Marketing's PersonalAntiSpy rogue security product).  This is something making the...

This is something making the rounds right now.  A trojan downloader which infects a system with rogue security product Antivirus XP.

This is particularly nasty spam pushing a fake codec trojan If you go to that link, you get to a very convincing site pushing a fake codec.  That CNNWorld was created yesterday, hosted in Iran.

My thanks to Sophos for reporting iPhone users to be wary of a free game for their shiny mobile - the game has a Trojan buried inside.The IT sec vendor says that samples intercepted by its R&D people carry various subject...

We’ve seen the same trojan being sent to inboxes in all kinds of ways — and seemingly obsessively on the subject of Angelina Jolie. Minor shift, now they’re putting the fake codec window right in the spam....

Spamming seems to be the source of everyone's problems in an average office; clogging our inboxes, bringing pestilence and death to our PCs thanks to viruses and trojan horses, trying to siphon money from our accounts through...

Over the past 24 hours, we’ve have seen a rash of malicious spam pushing screensavers that are, in reality, backdoor trojans (VirustTotal report here, with very poor detection by most engines). It is unknown how widespread...

However, the cab file that downloads is actually malicious and installs a variant of small.lu (aka ntos or Monster Trojan). This is a very nasty data-stealing trojan. In fact, it’s an even more dangerous variant of Small.lu...

Uses a redirect through Google (quite common these days) to deliver the user to the malware site. The initial payload is a trojan downloader (VT report here), which then pulls down the spambot, which we label as...

Since late last week, we have been observing a fair number of spams with a Trojan payload, purporting to be a money transfer notification from Western Union. The spam looks like this (the attachment in this screenshot has been...

Security Firm Tier-3 has warned companies to review their IT security arrangements, following a potentially serious spam incident that affected the email servers of Scandinavian furniture giant IKEA. "Newswire reports...

Finjan announced important findings by its Malicious Code Research Center (MCRC) which have identified a new genre of crimeware Trojans.Utilizing regular Web 2.0 technology and websites to provide cybercriminals with an easy and...

IT security and control firm Sophos has published its latest report on the top twelve spam-relaying countries over the third quarter of 2007.Experts at SophosLabs scanned all spam messages received in the company's global network...

Our folks in spyware research infected two machines with spam bots (the spam bots are only sending to our internal research network — all traffic to port 25 is redirected to our honeypot). By infecting two machines with two...

Sophos is warning Netters about an adult spam campaign that routes punters to a page with `hot photos from the birthday,' hinting that the page is chokka with prOn.The page, which contains download links for what appears to be...