Spam and Phishing

It’s February, and that means Valentine’s Day-related spam. Lots of it! There are already loads of adverts offering expensive alcohol and chocolates, jewellery and leather goods, romantic trips for two etc.

In January we published the first of our malware wallpaper calendars. Here’s the latest wallpaper.

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.

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.

This new worm is propagating via e-mail with a backboned administration through a crimeware pack called BOMBA. The scam messages come with a message to a fake eCard requiring installing Flash Player (an old scammers trick).

We’d like to wish all our readers a very happy New Year and offer you a small gift – a selection of wallpaper calendars with the dates of the most significant events in the history of the IT security industry.

n the last few days we have discovered that spam messages with malicious links are being sent via instant messenger services

It’s quite common to see attackers use hot topics on social networks to force users to click on malicious links. So what would be more interesting these days than using the term “Wikileaks”?

Phishing attacks in Brazil now using real personal data of the victim

Another Facebook likejacking attempt is being spammed out to fool Facebook users with “5 things girls do before she meets her boyfriend”.

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.