Don’t Give Spammers a Reason to Be Thankful

Thanksgiving kicks off the holiday season in the United States, the top spam-sending country in the world. The holiday season ushers sales and big discounts for users. Unfortunately, however, this also means that spammers will be rushing to offer consumers bogus promos and discounts. Seems even cybercriminals have something to be thankful for, too. Trend Micro [...]

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Don’t Give Spammers a Reason to Be Thankful

Another ZBOT Spam Run

Trend Micro threat analysts were alerted to the discovery of another ZBOT spam campaign. The emails bear subjects such as “your photos” and “some jerk has posted your photos.” They inform the recipients that someone has posted their photos without their permission on a site and has sent the link to their friends. The recipient is intended to [...]

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Another ZBOT Spam Run

“New Koobface Variant” Targets Skype

The activities of the infamous Koobface botnet have been a frequent topic of discussion here at the Malware Blog. Some security analysts recently commented that the botnet has added a new tool to its arsenal as a new alleged “Koobface variant” has been targeting the VoIP application, Skype. The supposed “Koobface variant,” detected by Trend Micro [...]

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“New Koobface Variant” Targets Skype

Win a Macbook Air, Get Malware

Trend Micro threat analysts were alerted to the discovery of spammed messages that purported to come from Media Service. The email bears the subject, “Congratulations,” and informs users that they won a Macbook Air. It also entices users to open the attached .ZIP file, which supposedly contains the details. Of course, the attachment does not hold any [...]

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Win a Macbook Air, Get Malware

Spoofed Trend Micro Email Leads to Phishing Site

Trend Micro threat analysts recently unearthed spammed messages that purported to have come from Trend Micro. Targeting trusted organizations is not an uncommon technique, used by cyber criminals when carrying out spam campaigns.  In this case, the phishing URL and domain are already inaccessible. The emails bear the subject, “Malware Blocking Tests put Trend Micro on [...]

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Spoofed Trend Micro Email Leads to Phishing Site