Search engine redirection is usually one of the side effects of malicious software. This problem remains even after Trojans or fake antivirus are removed from the infected system. No matter what site they search for, users experience a redirection of search results and web pages to affiliated websites. In the
No surprise here – Valentine’s Day spam is being widely distributed. Commtouch labs have been receiving valentine’s themed spam since January – some of the subjects used: happy st valentine?€™s with mydatelab.com! happy st valentine?€™s with myseduction.com! cgjn, valentine day sale now on gctoyota, the best valentines gifts geyr, valentine
Chances are likely that your business uses Adobe Reader on a regular basis in order to read Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Adobe Reader, formerly known as Acrobat Reader, is the number one program that is used to handle and read PDF files. Adobe Reader unfortunately has a history of
The attack begins with a message that comes from a spoofed “Bank of America” sender (such as: RiskDept@hotmail.com, or RiskDept@msn.com). See sample below (note the very advanced date): The attached file, BillingVerification.exe, is a self-extracting archive which contains and automatically loads an html page in the recipient’s browser. The file
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In addition to the much publicized use of Facebook and Twitter to organize protests, supporters of change in Egypt have also been using good old email to spread the word. The emails appear to be spreading using the traditional “forward this to all your contacts”. The subjects include: Stand with
The attack starts with a spoofed email which claims to be from the Ministry of Finance in Turkey (FROM: “MALIYE BAKANLIGI”<bilgi@maliye.gov.tr>). Below is the translated email (courtesy of Google translate): The RAR archive attachment which seems to include the list of cars for sale, actually contains a file with a
APNIC announced today that they have been allocated the final allocation made by IANA of IPv4 /8 blocks under the current framework. Come again?? Translation: IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) allocate blocks of IPv4 addresses to five Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) – these are shown on the map below. These
Facebook chat messages containing malicious links are being sent from compromised Facebook accounts. The messages are typically sent to all of the compromised user’s friends. The distribution of the malware includes the following steps Legitimate website is hacked A new folder is created on the hacked site including malware (an
