In January we published the first of our malware wallpaper calendars. Here’s the latest wallpaper. Read Full Article
Spam report: December 2010
The amount of spam in email traffic increased by 0.3 percentage points compared to November and averaged 77.1%. Read Full Article
Pirate episodes scam
TV Series such as “The Simpsons” are hugely popular and have hundreds of thousands of fans around the world. Unlike “Southpark” – another hugely popular series – not all of them are freely available on the web though. As such, there is a high demand on the web for such episodes and as usually happens, scam tactics appear around them. Read Full Article
Malicious ads through ICQ
ICQ client used to push malicious ads that lead fake anti-virus. Read Full Article
The smart screensaver
Kaspersky Security Network is an integral part of Kaspersky Lab technology. With its ‘cloud’ architecture KSN automatically detects and blocks unknown malware and infected/dangerous websites, filters spam, protects children from unwanted content and lots more Read Full Article
TDSS. TDL-4
A new variant of the rootkit, TDL-4, which can infect both 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems, appeared sometime between July and August, 2010. Read Full Article
New Twitter worm redirects to Fake AV
A new Twitter worm is spreading fast, using the “goo.gl” URL shortening service to distribute malicious links Read Full Article
Internal needs on the black market
The criminals seem to have enough stolen information like credit card PINs, as well as details for online banking accounts and payment systems. Their problem now is how to launder the money they have made. Our statistics confirm it. Read Full Article
A keygen with a twist
Programs for cracking commercial software are, sadly, not unpopular. They have also caught the attention of malware writers, who prepared a couple of surprises for those who don’t mind a free ride every now and then. Read Full Article
Mistyping leads to infections!
Cybercriminals like to register domain names that are very similar to actual, well known domain names but with one or more letters changed. In many cases a potential victim will mistype a letter and in this way arrives at a fake Web site instead of the original one. Read Full Article