Last week, we talked about the Tequila botnet that was targeting Mexican users.

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Bye, Bye Tequila Botnet

Spammers seem to be on something of a Twitter rampage of late. They have sent out a wide variety of spammed messages recently that all appear to be from Twitter: The first mail sample shows a phishing attack mounted against users. The second contains links to a malicious file that is already detected as TROJ_FAKETWT.A

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Bogus Twitter Spam Hits Inboxes

The lab is currently seeing a spam run pushing a PDF exploit. The emails look like this:

Early this year, the SASFIS Trojan became notorious in relation to spoofed email messages supposedly from Facebook .

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SASFIS Malware Uses a New Trick

I  hate to single out individual countries, organizations, ISPs, or any other entity but I have to tell you—my head almost explodes when I run into barriers in trying to contact the responsible organization where I see criminal activity. Now sure, I see criminal activity in a lot of places, granted.

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The Frustrations of Attempting Malicious Notifications

Vulnerabilities found in Internet Explorer (IE) have been well-documented in the past due to the browser’s popularity among users. However, the rise in the use of alternative browsers , particularly Apple Safari and Opera, has now led to the discovery of new vulnerabilities as well. Trend Micro researcher Rajiv Motwani reports that there have been a lot of exploits for all browsers last week.

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New Vulnerabilities Found in Apple Safari and Opera

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

TrendLabs SM recently spotted a phishing site that specifically targets Public Bank of Malaysia’s clients. Public Bank is one of Malaysia’s leading financial institutions that operate in other parts of Asia as well, including Hong Kong, China, and Cambodia.

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Public Bank of Malaysia Phished

TrendLabs SM recently encountered a phishing email specifically targeting Standard Chartered Bank clients. The spammed message instructs recipients to log in to their online accounts and to visit the Secure Messages section to read a specific message. The email body includes an embedded link, which when clicked leads to a  phishing page. The use of bogus login pages has become a typical attack vector that phishers continue to use

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Phishers Send Out Standard Chartered Spam

A year after the much-hyped April 1st D-day for DOWNAD/Conficker , the world can only hope that it has heard the last of the notorious network worm . As we have seen , DOWNAD variants have effectively infected millions of systems and paralyzed networks in just a matter of months. And while there seems to be very little news on DOWNAD recently, users are still advised to adhere to best computing practices and to implement necessary preventive measures

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Things You Need to Remember About DOWNAD/Conficker