When trawling the Web today we came across a website that has been compromised and rigged so that it is returned in search engine results for many different search terms. The site in question belongs to a UK-based company that specializes in hiring out holiday homes and is a legitimate business.
Over the past few days a sustained email spam campaign has been running to distribute new Zeusbot variants. Initially the campaign kicked off with a story from “your administrator” about some server upgrade that requires you to download and execute a patch to ensure that your computer continues to work properly:
An unfortunate side effect of any news-worthy disasters of the modern day is that a wave of malware will often follow in the virtual world after the initial event in the physical world. The large earthquake (8.3 on the Richter scale) last night recorded off the coast of Western Samoa and the subsequent tsunami that followed caused much destruction and loss of life to the islands near the e
Yes folks, the Bredolab crew is at it once again. Today we saw a moderate wave of spam email, numbering a few thousand per hour. Not to be drawn to the depth of exploiting the death of Patrick Swayze to deliver their malware, the Bredolab gang is still adapting old reliable—spam email messages with promises of undelivered parcels and cash for collection.
Tennis is a huge sport worldwide and yesterday was the women's semi final of the US Open in which Serena Williams lost out to her rival due to a foot fault. To cut to the chase, Ms Williams went on to deliver a verbal volley against the line judge, something about shoving tennis balls … somewhere.
Web browsers have been having a real torrid time of late, it seems the only people showing them any great attention these days are those looking for new 0-day vulnerabilities.
This is now getting a bit tedious but the Twitter and Koobface bandwagon just keeps on tumbling down the slippery slopes. Today there are many reports of yet another variant of Koobface doing the rounds through Twitter. The tweets doing the rounds contain the following messages: