Over the weekend, news reports of “hacked” iTunes accounts used to purchase worthless apps surfaced. And since there was no evidence nor report of an iTunes App Store data leak, it is most likely that individual iTunes user credentials were stolen via phishing attacks. What’s interesting about this incident is it doesn’t involve any malicious app

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Cybercriminals Make Money Out of App Store

Cybercriminals leveraging social media is now basically a given, especially with users’ current dedication to social media (specifically on social networks). Actually, we’ve reported quite a few instances that prove how cybercriminals used Twitter for their operation, most especially in spamming.

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Twitter Kit Out to Make Twitter a Spammers’ Dream

Twitter is becoming a common medium to spread spam, malware and all kinds of badness. Just a few weeks ago, we wrote about FIFA and the Gaza attacks being used as social engineering leverage by Trojan creators , and there are no signs of them stopping any time soon.

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Backdoors in Twitter, Now in Arabic

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

Earlier this month, the Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization (AMTSO) published new guidelines on the delicate topic of testing anti-malware products. Since then, many experts in the anti-malware industry have been commenting on the said guidelines. Many of these comments (including some from myself), have been summed up by tech blogger Kevin Townsend here .

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What the New AMTSO Guidelines Mean for Users

Due to their ever-growing popularity, social networks have been a continuous target of cybercriminals to proliferate their malicious schemes. TrendLabs SM received samples of another Facebook spam, this time also taking advantage of the popular micro-blogging site, Twitter . The mail, which poses as a Facebook notification message, uses adult-themed strings to lure users into opening the attachment.

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Spammers Target Facebook and Twitter at Once

After a relatively quiet May with only two security bulletins, Microsoft comes out with 10 security bulletins in June’s Patch Tuesday release. Three of these were rated “critical,” which means these vulnerabilities could be exploited without the user having to take any action beyond visiting a malicious site. These bulletins cover a total of 34 different vulnerabilities.

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Patch Now: 10 Updates for June Patch Tuesday

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

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

Cybercriminals have found yet another way to grab users’ attention. This time, they posed as members of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from Washington D.C.

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419 Scam Resurfaces with FBI Spam