While conducting research, I encountered a curious-looking new ZeuS/ZBOT sample using a very old toolkit version. I retrieved the sample two days ago

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ZeuS/ZBOT Targets Russian Banks

Yesterday we blogged about a new piece of Symbian malware, which we detected as SYMBOS_FLOCK.I . This malware targets users of older Series 60 devices.

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SYMBOS_FLOCK.I – Where Does It Come From?

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

We have recently seen some instances of spam email hitting our spam traps with a story about the Brazilian soccer coach Dunga, who was given a black eye by an angry fan last Sunday.

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Don’t Let This Email Give Your Computer A Black Eye

An addition to the roster of digital devices that have been shipped with malware, Samsung, too, seems to have accidentally distributed malware along with the new Bada-powered Samsung S8500 Wave smartphone. It has been reported that the 1GB microSD cards included with the mobile phone units shipped to Germany contain preinstalled Windows-based malware.

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Infected S8500 Wave Phones Make it to Germany

What do the FIFA World Cup and Gaza attack have in common? They are both currently being used for social engineering by a couple of malware campaigns seen on Twitter . TrendLabs SM Senior Threat Researcher, Ivan Macalintal, spotted several malicious programs being distributed via the popular microblogging site.

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FIFA and Gaza Attack Tweets Dump Backdoors

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

A new exploit has been found in the Japanese word processor Ichitaro . JP-RTL engineers have received a sample Ichitaro document, which is capable of exploiting the previously unknown vulnerability

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Another Vulnerability Discovered in Ichitaro

There’s another malware run underway on Twitter. A fairly large pool of fake accounts are sending out messages with popular hashtags and the text “haha this is the funniest video ive ever seen”. People see these messages when they look for trending topics in Twitter.

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Twitter attack

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