Dissecting the ZeroAccess Rootkit

The ZeroAccess rootkit isn’t the most well-known or closely watched piece of malware in recent history, but, as an extremely detailed new analysis of the program shows, it is a perfect example of the kind of sophisticated malware that attack crews are using to maintain persistent, silent access t...

Protozoids Tap Veterans Day Sentiment To Push Malware

How will you know when your dabbling in pharmaceutical spam and affiliate marketing hi jinks have truly poisoned your soul and stolen the last shreds of humanity you had left? Well, probably around the time that you find yourself taking advantage of public sentiment for the sacrifices of our men...

Midterm Election Buzz Fuels Rogue AV Attacks

Interest in the U.S. midterm elections is being used to lure Web surfers to malicious Web pages that are pushing rogue antivirus programs, according to security firm Websense. With voter interest running high in the U.S., Web searches for hot terms like “midterm election polls,” “2010 midterm...

Users Still Making Life Easy for Scareware Crews

Scareware and rogue AV programs have enjoyed a very good run in the last few years, making millions of dollars for their creators and generally making life miserable for victims. And while there’s been some innovation recently in the mechanisms attackers use to keep the programs resident on...

'Dislike' Button Scam on Facebook Goes Viral

Researchers are advising Facebook users to avoid offers to download an “official dislike button”, which the firm claims has spread virally across the service. There are two different versions of the ruse thus far, both with tiny URL links to rogue applications. Read the full article...

Rogue AV Live Tech Support

This is a recording of a live chat session with the technical support agent associated with a rogue AV program. The session was recorded by Nicolas Brulez, a security analyst at Kaspersky Lab.The video is best viewed in full-screen mode...

Pulling Back the Curtain on Rogue AV Tech Support

We’ve blogged a few times about rogue AV, explaining how search engines have been abused using Black Hat Search Engine Optimization techniques to redirect web surfers to rogue AV websites. Recently, we’ve noticed that the rogue AVs being spread are all equipped with an “Online Support” button. Se...

The Rise of the Rogue AV Testers

By Costin Raiu Recently, I was sitting around with a number of colleagues from Kaspersky Lab, discussing everybody’s favorite subject: the state of anti-virus testing these days. During the talks, somebody brought up the name of a new, obscure testing organization in the Far East. Nobody else had...

How to Run a Scareware Campaign

The infection routines being used by some scareware and rogue AV gangs are much more comprehensive and far-reaching than many current analyses have shown, experts say, including some attacks that not only place a malicious script on a compromised server, but infect every single legitimate script ...

Scareware, Black Hat SEO and You

The scareware and rogue AV problem that initially appeared a few years ago and has since found its way onto thousands and thousands of legitimate Web sites, including The New York Times home page, has now reached epidemic levels. The scams are mostly boilerplate and well-understood, but it’s not...

Symantec AppStream / Workspace Streaming Remote Code Execution (SYM10-008)

The version of Symantec AppStream or Symantec Workspace Streaming running on the remote host has a remote code execution vulnerability. The client does not properly authenticate to the server before downloading available files. A remote attacker could exploit this by setting up a rogue Workspace...

Facebook Developer Verification Won't Stop Rogue Apps

Looking to clamp down on the escalation of malicious apps on its popular social network, Facebook will now require that every developer to verify their Facebook account by providing a mobile phone number or adding a credit card to their account. While this is clearly a step in the right direction...

Facebook Plagued By Sexiest Video Ruse

A huge attack by a rogue Facebook application last weekend infected users’ PCs with popup-spewing adware, said a researcher. Read the full article. Computerworld...

Path for daily backup is configurable through WEB UI

It is possible to set the daily backup path and partial name through the web UI. This could mean that information can be obtained by a rouge admin. This issue addresses that by introducing a flag so concerned administrators can remove this feature. This flag is set to false by default meaning it ...

Moscow Bombings, TJX Hacker Spur Black Hat Campaigns

Spammers and malware writers have wasted no time in taking advantage of Monday’s bombings in Moscow, opening up a campaign on Twitter to point users to malicious sites. The pair of suicide bombings that hit the Metro system in Moscow Monday morning inevitably led to a flood of messages on Twitter...

Facebook Warns of Profile Stalking Scam

A bogus application that lures Facebook users by falsely offering to show who has been viewing their profile has been exposed as a scam. A researcher warns he has already identified 25 different copies of the same rogue app but using different monikers such as peeppeep-pro, profile-check-online a...

MS Warns of Rogue Antivirus 'Security Essentials'

Microsoft has warned Windows users to be on their guard against a piece of rogue antivirus software passing itself off as Microsoft Security Essentials. Security Essentials 2010 is a piece of software Microsoft said installs a fake virus scanner on your machine andmonitors and blocks processes it...

Debian DSA-1874-1 : nss - several vulnerabilities

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Network Security Service libraries. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2009-2404 Moxie Marlinspike discovered that a buffer overflow in the regular expression parser could lead to the...

Mozilla Ships Security Goodies in Firefox 3.6 Update

Mozilla has released the latest iteration of its flagship Firefox browser with a few significant security goodies to keep malicious hacker at bay. The update, which is being shipped via the browser’s automatic update mechanism, includes new features to patch third-party Firefox plug-ins and lock...

Hackers Using XSS to Insert iFrames in New Attack

In a new twist on a couple of old attack techniques, hackers have begun using cross-site scripting to inject malicious iFrames onto some Web sites, redirecting users to malicious sites designed to install unwanted software. The new attack, which leads to the installation of a rogue antivirus...