A new scam on Facebook targeting Twilight fans this time . Users are triked to think that they will play a Twilight related Game . Users will be tricked in liking the “Play Twilight: Breaking Dawn” page : Facebook Twilight Scam Game Invitation Page Twilight Facebook Scam Game After you click on the page you will be taken to  a [...]

Last weekend around 40 South Korean sites, including the Presidential, Foreign Ministry and Defense Ministry websites, faced a sophisticated DDOS attack with malicious payloads. The command and control (C&C) servers are set on two layers spread over more than 10 countries. Also, it has a self destruction routine that can render the infected system unbootable by overwritting the MBR sectors [...]

According to Click Forensics and Anchor Intelligence, almost a third of the clicks to online ads were fraudulent in the first three months of this year. That’s a 25% increase from the last quarter of 2009. Usually the fraud is done by cybercriminals that create various websites containing only ads. After that, they rent the services of groups that control [...]

The conficker Botnet is dead some security researchers say but according to Qualys, a security risk and compliance management provider, about 10% of the hundreds of thousands of Windows systems it monitors for customers have not yet applied Microsoft‘s MS08-067 security update. MS08-067, an out-of-band release that shipped in October 2008, patched a bug in the service Windows uses to [...]

The Vietnamese government denies it’s involvement in the current cyberattacks used to intimidate opponents of a mining project in Vietnam. “The perpetrators may have political motivations and may have some allegiance to the government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam” said McAfee Chief Technical Officer George Kurtz. “The comments are groundless,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Nguyen Phuong Nga said on Monday. [...]

Google and Mcafee have announced that they found a new global botnet consisting of potentially tens of thousands of compromised machines that is targeting Vietnamese users in the attempt to silence political activists. Neel Mehta from Google’s security team said that users got infected when they installed  trojans that were masquerading as legitimate Vietnamese keyboard drivers, used to allow Windows [...]

On their blog, Google posted information about an attack that targeted potentially tens of thousands of users who downloaded Vietnamese keyboard language software. The main payload of the malware was to spy and to participate in distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks against various blogs that containing political articles. One way to survive those DDOS attacks is to use our [...]

Vodafone HTC MAGIC According to Movil Zona (Spanish Technology Website) ~ 3000 memory cards supplied by Vodafone Spain were infected with the Mariposa bot client. A spoke person from Vodafone has told that this is a “local incident” and that they will provide the customers new memory cards. They have also offered to supply them with tools to restore the [...]

Even though 2010 started with four botnets tackled via arrests or net access cutoffs, spammers survive. “So as far as impact on spam goes it has been minimal,” said Rik Ferguson, a senior security analyst at Trend Micro. Despite Waledac being taken down or that a large chunk of the Zeus botnet was amputated and that spanish investigators along with FBI worked to [...]

Waledac Bot Net infections Map Photo:  Microsoft Waledac is a worm that is capable of harvesting and forwarding password information. It is capable of receiving commands from a remote server. Commands include instructions on functions to perform (for example, update malware components or send information from the infected computer). Waledac spreads in an e-mail attachment. The name of the e-mail [...]