Category: Trojans

Michael Jackson Malware on the Rise

Paul

In the last 24 hours the spammers and scammers have begun to distribute spam with the guise to:

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  • Harvest Email Addresses —  This seems to used to ask users to respond to the email to get “top secret” information about how he died.  Security experts believe this is an attempt to verify email addresses for future spam attempts.   Although it isn’t wise to reply to people you don’t know about it at least has very little risk with your computer for the time being.

  • Fake Codecs and Hidden Trojans —  Seems this is the main thing they are doing right now to get personal computers on their networks.   So you should never visit a site you don’t know about without having an Anti-virus software and A firewall to better protect your system.

  • Extortion Ware — This one is very interesting, and According to Webroot.  You should avoid sites that you don’t know anything about.   With News of anything major you should keep with the trusted news sites.  This one looks to be the bad guy type.

These seem to be a common ploy with scammers and spammers who want to get money from you in one way or another.   I have been watching the Google searches and haven’t seen any malicious sites but I could of missed one here and there.

You should always have an [intlink id=”2205″ type=”page”]Anti-virus and Firewall[/intlink] available to help protect your system from these types of attacks.   If you had some kind of protection to better protect your computer.  Remember no one can stop computer infections but you.

Mac Malware on the Rise drive by Downloads

Paul

Photo by Incase Designs Photo by Incase Designs

More and more there seems to be a building trend with Malware writers are developing ways to find both Mac systems and PC Systems. In a diary talking about that one mans journey leads to a site that can detect which system you are on and offer up Malware for that system. He also has some other examples of this on a Mac Trojan in the wild.

Now more and more[intlink id=”2173″ type=”post”] Apple users think they are not vulnerable[/intlink] to the types of antics that the PC users have to deal with day by day.  This however proves they are “WRONG”.   I will keep telling people whether PC or Mac that you need to have [intlink id=”2205″ type=”page”]Anti-virus and Firewalls[/intlink] installed to help protect yourself from be victim to this type of stuff.  Just a last week Sopho’s issued the OSX/Tored-Fam worm to their databases.   Sopho’s even talks about this in detail on their blog.

[ad]Though admittedly it is the people who are searching for Porn that will most likely install this malware.  It however begs the question, hasn’t this been done on the PC systems before?  I have to think this is because the Apple is getting a bigger share of the systems in the world.   For the one reason people still think they will never get Viruses or Worms on there system.   I on the other hand know that this is just the beginning and in the near future Apple will have to recommend to people to have Anti-virus software on your system.  They did that in the past but changed their minds.

Apple’s stance on malware and their systems are one that will be their downfall.   I’ve talked in the past about [intlink id=”694″ type=”post”]Mac\’s getting viruses and other such Malware[/intlink].  Although to Apple’s benefit they do offer ProtectMac AntiVirus for the OSX.   I don’t know how good this is but I do think they need to change their advertising and not make it seem like the Macintosh has can’t get viruses.   I think it would be really funny to see Justin Long in the Mac ads get a Virus, although I don’t think that will happen it is something that I would love to see.

Casino Spammers still user Yahoo for Spam : Could this be Malware?

Paul

It just shows you just how one Geocities was taken down by Yahoo who owns it, the spammers have to come up with more ways to get you to download there software.

[ad]In my previous post about [intlink id=”3199″ type=”post”]Casino programs[/intlink],  They were using Geocities to host the page for the link to the download.

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It seems to be linking to “http://bestwinscasino.com/SmartDownload.exe“.  From [intlink id=”3199″ type=”post”]previous post[/intlink] I talked about what that program did but I wanted to do another test with CWSandbox and see what has change. It looks like they must be having problems lately,  So If you want to do your own test and send me the link by all means.  I don’t know what is going on but, it probably is like the other post about wanting to do some bad things.  Virustotal has some anti-virus programs flagging this so I am unsure of the Harmlessness of this file but I wouldn’t install this software.  According to Avinti this program is a trojan dropper.  So Iwill let you decide on installing this software or not.

While the CWSndbox checks for malware, I went to Whois and looked up the domain.   Very interesting,  According to Whois this domain is located in China?  You don’t say, we’ve heard a lot of stuff coming from China from Graham Cluely Blog.  So it only makes me wonder what they are attempting to do now.  I do know never download a file you haven’t heard off

This is a good time to install some [intlink id=”2205″ type=”page”]Free Anti-virus and Free Firewall [/intlink]software to better protect your system.

Fake Emails about Windows Support spam!

Paul

According to Trend Micro, Some malicious software is being sent to unsuspecting users about Windows SP1 andSP2 having a error that could damage software or even hardware.  See Trends blog with the photos of the fake spam.

[ad#ad2-right]Although from time to time Microsoft does send out security information to Technet subscribers people have also used this in the past to get people to install Viruses and Malware, like this one that installs TSPY_BANKER.MCL. TSPY_BANKER.MCL monitors the affected user’s online transactions and steals banking related information

Microsoft sends e-mail messages to subscribers of our security communications when we release information about a security software update or security incident. Unfortunately, malicious individuals can and have sent fake security communications that appear to be from Microsoft.

[Via Microsoft]

So if you get an email from Microsoft you’ll probably want to delete it.  Any Microsoft communications will be sent from the Update center.  You should never install software that is from an untrusted website.    If you are concerned you should check the web and find out what people are saying about the situation and see if it is a scam or true!!  Remember only you can prevent a virus or Malware!