Published in July 31st, 2008
Yet another round of spam e-mails that instructs recipients to click on a link that downloads a virus is making the rounds. This time the e-mails include a link that contains an article about the FBI and the popular social networking site, Facebook.
The FBI is following reports of recent spam e-mails spreading the Storm Worm [...]
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Published in July 30th, 2008
UK payments body Apacs is urging online banking customers to remain extra vigilant following a 180 per cent surge in phishing emails in the past year.
Apacs, said there were 20,682 “phishing” frauds involving banks and building societies reported in the first six months of the year, against 7,224 a year earlier.
Communications Director Sandra Quinn said: [...]
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Published in July 29th, 2008
The latest high risk adware currently infecting PCs is known as Adware.PlayMP3z.B
This form of adware is disguised as a codec for viewing media files, or for listening to audio files. As mentioned in an earlier post, beware of any media file that requires any type of download in order to play. Adware.PlayMP3z.B will prompt the [...]
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Published in July 25th, 2008
Threat: Fsl-Zoo_Disaster
Fsl-Zoo_Disaster is a virus-like program that spreads automatically to other computers by sending itself out by email or by any other means. It is a program that propagates itself by attacking other machines and copying itself to the affected machine.
Worms like Fsl-Zoo_Disaster have a self-replicating code that travels from machine to machine by various [...]
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Published in July 24th, 2008
Key Government websites in the UK have been infected by cyber-criminals aiming to steal browsers’ personal details, it was reported today.
Eastern European hackers are suspected of placing the Asprox virus on more than a thousand British websites, including those run by the NHS and a local council, in the past two weeks. Experts described the [...]
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Published in July 23rd, 2008
The “spam king” was sentenced on Tuesday to 47 months in prison, with a ruling that the court hopes sends a message to other online criminals.
Robert Soloway is the second person in the country to be convicted under the Can-Spam Act for flooding the virtual world with fraudulent e-mail messages. His sentence of 47 months [...]
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Published in July 17th, 2008
McAfee has recently reported that a very large number of fake MP3 files have been spreading across P2P networks. The bad news is that one of these MP3 files can very easily infect your PC with dangerous malware or viruses.
The infection is not limited to MP3 files, but can also be present in MPG video [...]
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Published in July 16th, 2008
A Brooklyn man was sentenced to more than two years in prison Tuesday after pleading guilty last year to sending unsolicited “spam” emails to about 1.2 million subscribers of Time Warner Inc.’s (TWX) America Online.
Adam Vitale, 27, was sentenced in federal court in Manhattan after pleading guilty more than a year ago to breaking anti-spam [...]
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Published in July 15th, 2008
Turkish hackers have taken advantage of an email address that appeared in The Simpsons to recruit marks onto the Kimya botnet. Back in 2003, an episode of animated comedy show The Simpsons revealed that Homer Simpson’s e-mail address was chunkylover53@aol.com – an address that was actually registered by one of the show’s writers.
Plenty of people [...]
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Published in July 8th, 2008
As predicted, hackers tried to trick users into downloading the Storm bot Trojan Friday by unleashing a flood of Fourth of July spam bearing links to malicious sites, several security companies reported.
The malware writers behind the botnet often make use of current events and holidays when crafting social engineering attacks, and this year is not [...]
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