New Twitter worm redirects to Fake AV

Thursday, January 20th, 2011 Posted in Industry News, Kaspersky | No Comments »

A new Twitter worm is spreading fast, using the “goo.gl” URL shortening service to distribute malicious links.The malicious links go through a number of redirections which are described below. ... Read more..

Internal needs on the black market

Monday, January 17th, 2011 Posted in Industry News, Kaspersky | No Comments »

At the end of 2010 I noticed a big wave of recruitment spam for money mule work. Initially, the criminals used spam sent from hacked email accounts. I even got ... Read more..

A keygen with a twist

Friday, January 14th, 2011 Posted in Industry News, Kaspersky | No Comments »

.color{padding: 5px 5px 5px 20px; background: #d9f9f3; border:solid 1px #05493c;} Programs for cracking commercial software are, sadly, not unpopular. They have also caught the attention of malware ... Read more..

Mistyping leads to infections!

Thursday, January 13th, 2011 Posted in Industry News, Kaspersky | No Comments »

Cybercriminals like to register domain names that are very similar to actual, well known domain names but with one or more letters changed. In many cases a potential victim will ... Read more..