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  • Pushdo Takedown Damages Botnet
    Last week it was reported that the Pushdo botnet, used to send spam using the Cutwail spamming module, was taken down, thanks to the efforts of several security researchers. Thirty command-and-control (C&C) servers of the Pushdo/Cutwail botnet were identified, almost 20 of which were taken down after their Internet hosting providers were notified. So far, [...]

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  • “IQ Test” Spam Proliferating via Instant Messages
    I recently came across a round of spammed instant messages that arrived via my Yahoo! Messenger account. These messages were supposedly sent from my cousin’s account, and used the following format and were sent to everyone on her friends list: The familiar message format told me that I was chatting with a bot that wanted [...]

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  • TDSS Pretending to Be TweetDeck Update
    Timing is everything, especially if you’re trying to spread malware. Last week, the developers of the popular Twitter application TweetDeck notified users that due to changes in the authentication protocols Twitter supports, users of older versions will have to upgrade. Naturally, cybercriminals latched onto this bit of news and sent out their own Tweets saying [...]

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  • New Zero-Day Vulnerabilities Imminent
    An independent group of security researchers has announced that they will be releasing zero-day vulnerabilities, Web application vulnerabilities, and proof-of-concept (POC) exploits for patched vulnerabilities throughout the month of September. Many high-profile vendors such as Adobe, Apple, Microsoft, and Mozilla are among those whose products will apparently have vulnerabilities revealed during the month. According to [...]

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  • The Persistence of FAKEAV
    Despite the consistent media exposure that FAKEAV malware has been receiving, it continues to be business as usual for FAKEAV proponents. To find out why the notorious malware family persists, Trend Micro researchers looked into three important aspects—social engineering techniques, the FAKEAV technology, and the FAKEAV business itself. Social Engineering Social engineering is a technique [...]

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  • New DLL Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild
    Over the weekend, Microsoft issued a new security advisory which covered a vulnerability in how Windows handles DLL files. The attack scenario would go this way: a vulnerable application would be used to open a file. The opened file can be a perfectly legitimate file; however the malicious file must be located in the same [...]

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  • Blogspot Mail2Blogger Secret Email Address Used in Spam Attack
    A spammed message supposedly from Newegg, a popular online computer hardware/software seller has been found in the wild. It informs users that their online purchase has been charged to their Visa card. It also contains two clickable links that point to the same malicious page, an example of which is http://{BLOCKED}nthenet.net/1.html. Clicking the link leads [...]

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  • Fake Celebrity Deaths Used in Malicious Spam Run
    TrendLabs received a recent spammed message that uses fake news about the death of Hollywood celebrities and famous athletes. The spam came in two varieties—one has a .ZIP file attachment that contains the malicious file news.exe that is detected as TROJ_DLDER.AU. TROJ_DLDER.AU connects to a certain URL to, in turn, download TROJ_BREDOLAB.XY. The other comes [...]

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