Thursday, February 26, 2009

Another Password Stealer hides as Bank of America video malware

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One of our top spam campaigns today at the UAB Spam Data Mine is the newest Snifula/Gozi password stealing trojan, this time disguised as a ...
Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Money Tight? Watch out for Coupon Offers from CyberCriminals

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While investigating the Waledac malware, UAB malware analysts Brian Tanner and Thom Savage discovered a new scam targeting those who may be ...
Friday, February 13, 2009

Javeline Spins an Identity Theft Survey

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Kevin Poulsen at Wired Debunked Javeline's Identity Theft Report already, but I can't help myself from lending an outraged voice to...
Thursday, February 12, 2009

New Trend: Stimulus Scammers

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With news of the President's Stimulus package dominating the media, it was only a matter of time before one of our long-time scammers de...
Wednesday, February 11, 2009

February 2009 Black Tuesday Report - Critical Exchange Server Patch

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We interrupt our regularly scheduled Valentine's Day Spam Countdown for an important message about Microsoft Black Tuesday. Yesterday...
Monday, February 09, 2009

Traveler Scams: Email Phishers Newest Scam

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Last Friday I had a phone call that sounded like an opportunity to look at a new scam from end-to-end. A retired school teacher in the Birm...
Sunday, January 25, 2009

Dear Santa (or, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009)

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Dear Santa, We have been very good. Please send us $825 Billion worth of free stuff. Sincerely Yours, Congress Turn on C-SPAN today and you...
Monday, January 19, 2009

Downadup / Conflicker Worm: 8? 9? 10 Million Infected?

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Its been quite a while since we've had a true run-away worm on the Internet, but if the claims of F-Secure are accurate, we've certa...
Thursday, January 08, 2009

US Army hacked as Gaza protest

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Today the anti-Israeli hackers for the first time brought their Cyber Propaganda War to Washington DC in the form of their attack against th...

Gaza Conflict spam points to Fake CNN Infection site

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Beginning at 7:30 this morning, the UAB Spam Data Mine began receiving emails claiming to have news about the Gaza conflict from CNN News. (...
Tuesday, January 06, 2009

A New Year and Anti-Virus Products Are Still Losing

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One of our most popular blog posts in 2008 was back in August - Anti-Virus Products Still Fail on Fresh Viruses . I'm sad to report tha...
Sunday, January 04, 2009

Whatever happened to Alan Ralsky?

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One year ago, the indictment was unsealed against Alan M Ralsky, Scott K Bradley, Judy M Devenow, John S Brown, William C Neil, Anki K Neil,...
Saturday, January 03, 2009

Happy New Year! Here's a Virus! (New Year's Postcard malware)

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I've been busy this week looking at the various defacements (see ComputerWorld , and ABC News ) and other cyber attacks (see yesterday...
Friday, January 02, 2009

Morocco based "Team Evil" reroutes prominent Israeli websites

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After more than 10,000 websites being defaced in protest of Israeli actions in Gaza, Morrocco-based defacement team "Team Evil" ha...
Thursday, January 01, 2009

2008: Looking back on a Year of Spam and Malware

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Happy New Year! As we get ready for the New Year, there are quite a few security folks making predictions for 2009. I think my friend Dan...

What does a National Cyber Range do?

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This week Aviation Week ran a story called DARPA Unveils Cyber Warfare Range . The article quotes Rance Walleston, the director of BAE Syst...
Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Radical Muslim Hackers Declare CyberWar on Israel

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This weekend more than 300 Israeli websites have been defaced in a period of 48 hours. In a website "defacement" a hacker violate...