After having handled thousands and thousands of phishing emails/webpages, they usually don’t actually reach me in any way or form. They are processed and added to our detection list in what is now a merely routine task. But recently I got a mail which was different because it appeared to be sent from my bank. Read Full Article
”The 15th Cyber Crime Symposium, Shirahama” with theme “Cloud Security” was held on May 26th – 28th at the “Big U” Information Exchange Center in Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. Approximately 220 people, including government delegates, information security researchers, lawyers, law enforcement and academia attended the event. Read Full Article
The earthquake and tsunami related crisis in Japan is still far from over – so is the appearance of new cyber threats trying to exploit that same crisis. Read Full Article
As was predicted by many, email scams soliciting donations for Japan are appearing in user’s inboxes. We took a closer look at one of these messages and identified the following details. Read Full Article
Since the beginning of August, our Japan office noticed around 900+ mails of a certain kind in their spam traps. We noticed two common patterns in all of the mail. First, the links in these spammed messages all point to compromised servers. Also, the file names of the redirectors are all dictionary words followed by two digits. Read Full Article
Over the last couple of days we’ve been noticing a few pharmacy spam mails which are a bit different. Somebody seems to have replaced the original graphical content with an alert highlighting that such messages are malicious. Read Full Article
In recent spam mails we have often noticed links to *.html files with random names. Another trend is that the cybercriminals do not even bother to register domains for their dirty deeds but simply plant their malicious code on compromised hosts. “Simply?” one may ask and sadly the answer seems to be “yes” based on our observations. Read Full Article
Iframes can have several attributes and we often encounter them when analysing malicious sites. They are often used in a hidden way to construct drive-by downloads of malware Read Full Article
Here we are, gathered in Larnaca (Cypus) for the Security Analyst Summit 2010. Beautiful beaches, gorgeous weather – the first thing coming to mind would be jumping into any of the numerous pools or into the sea and have some fun. Read Full Article
Gumblar infection count Read Full Article