Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Michael Jackson headline used in Password Stealing scheme

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Last week we reported that a Fake Microsoft Critical Update was one of the top sources of active computer exploitation being delivered in t...
Monday, June 29, 2009

Two Quick Updates

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We blogged last week about the Fake Microsoft Update which was actually an attempt to infect visitors with ZBot in order to steal their ban...
Monday, June 22, 2009

Fake Twitter, LinkedIn, and ScribD pages lead to Fake AV

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Last week we were talking about how Twitter users are encouraged to blindly click on "shortened URLs" which could actually lead to...
Saturday, June 20, 2009

Spam Crisis in China

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At the UAB Spam Data Mine, we continue to see that MOST of the spam we receive has ties to China. As an experiment this morning I looked at...
Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Swine Flu Pandemic (H1N1 Influenza) Leads to Increased Tamiflu Spam

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We received a media query yesterday about how the announcement by the World Health Organization that we are now at " Full Pandemic ...
Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Armchair CyberWarriors: Twitter and #IranElection

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Our friends over at ThreatChaos let us know about the newest "CyberWar" in their blog this morning, so we went over to Twitter (y...
Monday, June 15, 2009

Graphic URL Attachment Spam and the Superman Internet Cafe

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Sunday, June 14, 2009

Money Laundering $1 at a time - a win for the UK's PCeU

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In London a little-known police unit called the Police Central E-Crime Unit (PCeU) has scored another big win. For several years people hav...
Saturday, June 06, 2009

Gumblar's 48,000 Compromised Domains Makes the Web a Dangerous Place

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Last week one of the students in the UAB Computer Forensics program came to see me about a virus problem he'd been working on for a clas...