Spam and Phishing

Ryan Naraine talks to mobile malware researcher Denis Denis Maslennikov about the mobile malware landscape.

As the subject of targeted attacks remains one of the industry’s most hotly discussed topics, and the waves of such attacks appear to be relentless, our experts, Kostin and Magnus, together with the team, decided to continue on with the theme.

The Pornography category in the Parental Control system of Kaspersky Lab’s home user products is triggered over 4 million times a day.

Do You Know Who’s Really Viewing Your Facebook Profile?

In the past, we’ve seen Web defacers act with only with political motivation. That has now changed. The Web defacers are being used by the online money gangs as a part of outsourced services.

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.

Malware writers are inventing new attacks regularly – but the anti-virus industry invents new protection techniques just as regularly. Whitelisting is on of the newer protection technology which are now standard in Internet Security products.

Adobe chained installers increase security

Will Microsoft ending support for XP/SP2 create a nirvana for cybercriminals?

Join Roel Schouwenberg and myself as we explore what AV tests are about today and reflect on what is important for people using these tests to make an informed decision about buying protection for themselves and their families.

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.

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.

As part of our general information sharing activity, we have launched a series of webcasts on YouTube.

At last! What every football fan has been dreaming of. The start of World Cup 2010!

In the last two weeks thousands of Facebook users fell for a so-called likejacking scam. A link on Facebook invites you to see for example the 101 hottest women in the world and leads you to an external website.