Fake Conficker Alert Drops Scareware Threat

An ongoing spam campaign is once again attempting to impersonate Microsoft’s security team by mass mailing Conficker.B Infection Alerts that drop a sample of the Antivirus Pro 2010 scareware scam. Here’s a sample of what the text looks like: “Dear Microsoft Customer, Starting 18/10/2009 the...

Zeus Trojan Part of New Outlook Web Access Phishing Scam

The attackers behind the Zeus Trojan have unleashed a new phishing scam that is specifically targeted at users of the popular corporate webmail tool Outlook Web Access. The phishing emails include the recipient’s actual email address and appear to be an update to the OWA application. The mail...

Citing Cybercrime, FBI Director Doesn't Bank Online

The head of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has stopped banking online after nearly falling for a phishing attempt. FBI Director Robert Mueller said he recently came “just a few clicks away from falling into a classic Internet phishing scam” after receiving an e-mail that appeared to be...

iPhone SMS Used as Bait in Rogue AV Scam

Cyber-criminals are using interest in MMS or SMS on the iPhone to trick users into downloading rogue antivirus software. According to security company Websense, attackers are abusing Google’s search engine to get users to click on links leading to a malicious page pushing scareware. Read the full...

Rogue AV Scam Targets Google PageRank

An ongoing attack on Google users is sending victims to rogue anti-virus software sites, researchers said this week. The attack takes advantage of Google’s page-ranking feature, according to researchers at eSoft’s Threat Prevention Team. The scam works like this: An attacker hacks a site, but...

Facebook Scam: I'm Stranded In London. Send Money!

From DarkReading Gadi Evron Facebook users are facing a new threat, 419 scams in chat form, masquerading as friends. I know because it just happened to me think: 419 scam. An “acquaintance” sent me a message using Facebook chat that said, “Hi.” Easy enough. I replied in kind. Then she told me a...

Security alert: Twitter porn names scam

From PC World Aurora Dizon The “Twitter porn names” game, currently Twitter’s top trending topic, may be a fun distraction that gives you and your friends something to tweet about. But it also has a security hole–one that is no technical snafu. It could be simple human error, but it’s also possib...

Firefox < 3.0.9 Multiple Vulnerabilities

The installed version of Firefox is earlier than 3.0.9. Such versions are potentially affected by the following security issues : - Multiple remote memory corruption vulnerabilities exist that can be exploited to execute arbitrary code in the context of the user running the affected application...

URL spoofing with box drawing character — Mozilla

Bjoern Hoehrmann and security researcher Moxie Marlinspike independently reported that Unicode box drawing characters were allowed in Internationalized Domain Names IDN where they could be visually confused with punctuation used in valid web addresses. This could be combined with a phishing-type...

GMail, GTalk phishing scam underway

Attention GMail and GTalk users: There’s a major spam run underway with social engineering lures to steal your login cretentials. This image shows a GMail message that purports to be an account termination warning from Google but, if a user is tricked into clicking on the link, he/she is redirect...

Using MS08-0 5 8 attack Google-bug warning-the black bar safety net

From: 80sec Vulnerability description:Google is the largest search engine. While Google owns the other large WEB application product line, to EMAIL, BLOG, online documents, personal home pages, electronic maps, discussion forums, RSS, etc. the Internet almost all of the application services. 80se...

CSRF: don't underestimate my damage and ability to attack-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Author: iceskysl Source: IceskYsl@1sters! CSRF, this attack way, although proposed a long time in the 2 0 0 6 time of year there, but this sleepy attack the giants until recently only gradually into our line of sight, what is CSRF what is that harm in the end how much? Common use is the How to,...

Hacker network intrusion 1 4 can use the method-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Upload vulnerabilitydoes not speak pS: if you see:Choose your file to upload re-uploador there is a“please login”, 8 0% there is a loophole! Sometimes the upload will not necessarily be successful,it is because Cookies are not the same. We will use WSockExpert made Cookies. Then use the DOMAIN...

Debunking the invasion of Baidu,Microsoft's official website, Scam-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

6 4 8 7 6 0 2 0 0 ! We go after it in! ! Finally, we select“hosts”this file! Use Notepad to open! ! Open after. We just need to change 127.0.0.1 and localgourp this 2 months. Of course. 127.0.0.1 is not modified also. Looking back at the operation· ! Good. Save exit! ! PING values are also seen. ...

Phishing attack possible with a delayed JavaScript prompt

A malicious page can be crafted to send the userto his banking site, and shortly afterwardsdisplay a dialog enticing the user to type inhis bank login credentials.The dialog will appear in front of the bankingpage, while the window it really belongs to willbe hidden. If the timing and context is...