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Search Engine Poisoning, a Holiday Tradition

10

Dec

2012

I seem to gotten myself pigeonholed this year as the "search engine poisoning guy", since I get asked about SEP attacks on a consistent basis. Especially now, as America is in the middle of its Thanksgiving-Christmas holiday season — I was asked about "Black Friday" SEP attacks by several people last week. Well, I had […]

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Trojan Disguised as Trend Micro Component Drops Bitcoin-Mining Malware

08

Dec

2012

Malware writers have devised lots of social engineering tactics to lure users into their scheme. This time around, we saw a Trojan passing itself off as a Trend Micro component as a way to trick users into downloading and executing it.We recently encountered a file and noticed the following properties (see below). For the untrained […]

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Rogue Yahoo! Messenger Cashes In on Latest YM Update

06

Dec

2012

On the heels of Yahoo!’s recent announcement of upcoming updates for the Messenger platform, certain bad guys are already taking this chance to release their own, malicious versions of Yahoo! Messenger.While doing my research, I encountered this particular file (detected by Trend Micro as TROJ_ADCLICK.TNH), which looks like a legitimate Yahoo! Messenger executable.However, when I […]

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