The KOOBFACE botnet continuously evolves to keep on generating profit for its perpetrators.

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The Evolution of KOOBFACE: A Web 2.0 Botnet

Italian bank Banca Popolare di Sondrio has become phishers’ new target with the discovery of a spammed message containing a link to the supposed bank’s Internet banking site, SCRIGNO . As with previous bank-related phishing attempts, clicking the link leads users to a site that looks very much like the legitimate Internet service’s login page. The site asks users to enter their user codes and personal identification numbers (PINs).

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Phishing Scam Targets Italian Bank

The only thing worse than receiving a spammed greeting card is a one that comes with malware. TrendLabs SM senior advanced threats researcher Loucif Kharouni recently acquired a sample spam in the form of an online greeting card. The said card urges recipients to check out the greeting card by clicking the image.

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Spam Greets Users with a Backdoor

.PDF files —or its inherent features—have been used by cybercriminals in some of the most noteworthy attacks we have encountered.

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PDF Exploit Becomes a Little Sophisticated

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

The most high-profile vulnerabilities tend to target either commonly used applications such as Adobe Acrobat and Flash Player or Windows itself, but in an attack which demonstrates that criminals are becoming ever more targeted, a vulnerability in   Ichitaro , a popular Japanese language word processing application has been exploited. Like similar vulnerabilities in Microsoft applications, the vulnerability allows random code to be executed on affected systems by opening a specially crafted .JTD file (JTD is the extension Ichitaro uses for its files).

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New Vulnerability Hits Popular Japanese Word Processor “Ichitaro”

We’re curious, how do you currently backup your data at home? Please answer our poll: Which of the following is/are your preferred method(s) for backing up data on your home computer

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Poll: How do you backup?

TrendLabs engineers received spammed messages claiming to come from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) . The email message warns recipients of either under-reporting, or not reporting, their incomes in line with the tax season (April).

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New Fake IRS Email Notice Leads to ZBOT

Criminals like to attack the biggest target because BIGGER generally provides a better Return On Investment (ROI). Windows is a good example. Mac is indeed safer than Windows but it isn’t necessarily because Mac is more secure

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I’m Feeling Lucky?

Text scams are increasingly becoming common again due to the forthcoming Philippine national and local elections , as political campaigns take to rampant text messaging for faster political mobilization.

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Text Spam and Text Scams