We recently saw some articles on the Web saying that Slim Shady aka Eminem died in a car crash . Today, we received a spammed message that still claims the rumor is true.

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Fake News of Eminem’s Death Leads to Malware

Chinese PC manufacturer Lenovo is the latest high-profile company to be compromised. Sometime over the past weekend, its support pages, which allowed users to download drivers and manuals, were compromised with the addition of a malicious iframe. The website in this malicious iframe led to the download of a BREDOLAB variant detected as TROJ_BREDOLAB.BY .

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Lenovo Support Page Compromise Leads to BREDOLAB

TrendLabs SM engineers Alvin Bacani and Jayson Pryde recently spotted a new spyware (detected by Trend Micro as OSX_OPINIONSPY.A ) that came bundled with screensavers , according to Intego , in sites that host free applications and software updates like MacUpdate, Softpedia, and VersionTracker. The said screensavers were found to be nonmalicious but did download information-stealing spyware, which robbed users of their email addresses, iChat message headers and URLs, as well as other personal data like user names, passwords, credit card numbers, and Web browser bookmarks and histories.

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Mac Sniffer Monitors IM Chats and RMTP Data Packets

Autorun.inf is prevalently used by worms as an autostart technique. Through this file, the worm is able to automatically execute whenever an infected drive is accessed

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New AutoRun Worms Utilize Action Key

A new spam campaign has been discovered spoofing job-application-related emails. While most spammed messages have been known to take advantage of a specific occasion, a holiday, or even a currently newsworthy item, spammers have hit a new low with this scheme

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CV Spam Comes with a Malicious Attachment

TrendLabs SM engineers recently spotted a new worm leveraging peer-to-peer (P2P) applications similar to the threat that displays copyright violation warnings. The new worm detected by Trend Micro as WORM_PITUPI.K solves the typical problem that P2P worms face, that is, hard-coded file names used to trick users by pretending to be cracks, key generators, or actual software. However, the problem with using the hard-coded technique is that the malware becomes obsolete once the software becomes outdated.

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Pirate Worm Sails the P2P Bay

Promises of freebies and other enticing promos are just a few of the tricks cybercriminals use to lure users to their profiteering schemes. TrendLabs SM engineers recently discovered suspicious-looking emails pretending to come from the iTunes Store.

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Fake iTunes Promo Gives Away Malware

May 10 is Mothers’ Day for most countries all over the world. As a perfect gift on this particular holiday, spammers decided to honor mothers by spamming e-cards from supposedly legitimate greeting card companies to distribute their malicious wares

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Spammers Celebrate Mothers’ Day

Avid readers of the Microsoft Support Lifecycle Blog (and really, how can you not be?) know that yesterday, April 13th, marked the end of support for Windows Vista RTM , also known as Windows Vista SP0. We’d like to say that we’ll miss Vista RTM.

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RIP Windows Vista RTM

Regular Release for Microsoft This April April 13 is here and for Windows users, this means it is Patch Tuesday. According to the advance notification from Microsoft almost a week ago, the company will be releasing 11 bulletins to address 25 vulnerabilities, 11 of which have been dubbed “critical.” These vulnerabilities were found in Microsoft Office and Windows . Affected users could be exposed to remote code execution attacks if they leave their software unpatched.

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Adobe and Microsoft Simultaneously Release Patches