Seen at the end of an email received overnight
It’s obvious when you hover over the hyperlink that you won’t end up at Twitter if you click on the hyperlink.
Source: http://xylibox.blogspot.com/2011/07/trojanfakeavlvt.html An important take-away from this article is that the fake AV studied can search out and replace via impersonation legitimate antivirus software that is installed on the user’s computer. Scary as that sounds, there are obvious signs to the experienced eye that something is wrong, as you will see from the screenshots. The […]
“ALDI external hard drives available for sale as part of its "special buys” purchases have been found to contain a computer virus. The Fission External 4-in-1 hard drive, DVD, USB and card reader device was withdrawn from sale this morning. The hard drive is supplied to ALDI by a company called Smart IT Australia, described […]
This is a very interesting read: http://stopmalvertising.com/malvertisements/ddos-attacks-a-new-twist-in-malvertisements.html
Affected software version: 5.0.1.0523 Vulnerability Description: Foxit Reader is vulnerable to a Insecure Library Loading vulnerability. The libraries identified as being vulnerable are dwmapi.dll, dwrite.dll and msdrm.dll. The vulnerability lies in the way Microsoft Windows loads DLLs. If applications load a library from a specific path and call that path implicitly, Microsoft Windows searches several […]
As is so often the case, by hovering your computer mouse cursor over the hyperlink, you can see that the URL you would visit by clicking has got nothing to do with Facebook. The domain being used, tianxi-zj.com, was registered in 2005 and the registration has not been updated since mid 2010. The registrant is, […]
Credit to Brian Krebs: http://krebsonsecurity.com/2011/07/google-your-computer-appears-to-be-infected/ I admit to feeling some concern about this tactic. The bad guys themselves use scary warnings to social engineer users into installing fake security software. How is the User going to differentiate between a fake scary warning and a real one? And I fear it is only a matter of […]
SBS Alert here: http://www.sbs.com.au/article/124519/SBS-website-statement-July-18-2011 “Over the last 2 days, the SBS website has been the victim of a hacking attack. This is the first time that the SBS site has suffered any sort of attack, however unfortunately, this is a common occurrence for many websites and organisations around the world. While SBS has comprehensive […]
Microsoft released their latest Security Intelligence Report back in June. You can find a copy here: http://www.microsoft.com/security/sir/default.aspx The most worrisome thing that I read in a discussion about the latest report (you can find the discussion here) is that: 27.5% of computers infected with Win32/InternetAntivirus were also found to have a password stealer/monitoring tool installed. […]