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The Blame Game
Major Malware Outbreaks Evade Anti-Virus Protection A report released on July 14, 2009 states that “Several successive and massive malware outbreaks caused a spike in malware that was undetected by major AV engines.” In Commtouch’s Q2 Report available here , which … Continue reading
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Tagged adobe vulnerability, anti-virus, badwarebusters, cybercriminal, evading detection, ftp, gumblar, gumblar.cn, hacker, hackers, hosting provider, iframe, infected webpage, infectious website, infectious websites, malscript, malware, martuz, martuz.cn, SERP, this site may harm your computer, undetectable, website hacked
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The Errors of Error Pages
Over the past few months, the number of sites infected with malscripts has increased dramatically. Many of these injection infections are difficult to track. Unbeknownst to many site operators, “error pages” can actually complicate the detection process. This blog posting … Continue reading
Don't Open That File!
Yes, just when you thought it was safe to open Adobe Acrobat files (with a .pdf extension), it’s not. Everyone who reads this should update their Adobe Acrobat Reader here: http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-04.html Hackers (or as some prefer – cybercriminals), have found … Continue reading
Paul McCartney's Web Site Hacked – "Back in the USSR"
Yes it’s true. The rock n roll icon Paul McCartney had his website hacked. (This attack isn’t necessarily originating in Russia, but I couldn’t refuse the obvious opportunity.) It’s amazing how certain hackings follow the news. It was just a … Continue reading
What Conficker was – and wasn't
Well, the big April 1st “dooms day” has come and gone. I’ll admit that even though we really didn’t think anything malicious was going to happen, we did add a Conficker scanner to The Box (our security appliance at www.ebasedsecurity.com) … Continue reading
Bomb Threat SPAM
Cybercriminals are using cleverly crafted SPAM messages to get you to click on a link that supposedly takes you to a Reuter’s video of bomb blasts in your area. I say cleverly crafted because the email will change based on … Continue reading
Social Networks & Social Engineering – Twitter Round 2
Continuing on from Round 1, I decided to take a step further and show you exactly how susceptible you are to a socially engineered infection through Twitter. Actually it’s more an attack through TinyURL.com, but since Twitter automatically converts URLs … Continue reading
Social Networks & Social Engineering – Twitter Round 1
My first review will be Twitter. I selected Twitter because it’s widely used and even easier for social engineering than some of the others. First a little background on Twitter. Many people categorize Twitter as a “micro” blog. This means … Continue reading
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Tagged bit.ly, cyber attacks, cyber threats, cybercriminal, cybersecurity, evading detection, Facebook, get-shorty, hacker, hackers, infected webpage, infected website, infectious websites, malicious code, malware, snipurl, social engineering, tinyurl, Twitter
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Social Networks & Social Engineering – What a Pair
When we started this service we knew that one of our main goals was to “get the word out” on how websites have been in the line of fire for cybercriminals. We published a report, “How Cybercriminals Use Your Website … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-virus, cyber attacks, cybercriminal, Facebook, fastpitch, Frank Kern, hacker, hackers, infected webpage, infected website, infectious websites, Jeff Walker, linkedin, malicious code, malware, myspace, security threats, social engineering, trojan, Twitter, Yanik Silver
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Malicious PDF's being sent
In the past 2 days we’ve been picking up malicious Adobe Acrobat files also known as PDF’s (the file extension on these files). We received these files in our honeypots as email attachments and when clicked on they infect Windows … Continue reading