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Apr 8, 2012

1 min read

I got a plane ticket from ZeuS!

At the moment there is no week without another spam campaign – this week we proudly present the US Airways ticket scam. The malware behind this scam is still the same as in the previous post, ZeuS a.k.a. Zbot, detected by Emsisoft Anti-Malware as Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot. The following email subjects are being used: US Airways online […]

Mar 20, 2012

1 min read

Open position which you might be interested in

No, this is not one of our job offers but rather one of the spam email subjects used by Zbot on behalf of CareerBuilder. Switching to plain text will reveal the real address as follows: Hello, I am a customer service employee at CareerBuilder. I found a vacant position at Security Finance Corporation that you […]

Mar 6, 2012

6 min read

Secure download resources or a malware cesspool – How trustworthy are download portals nowadays?

The term “download wrapper” is still quite unknown, which of course does not make its basic technology any less harmful. The moment that hackers and malware authors start to specialize in download wrappers, if they haven’t done already, the Internet community may have to face new waves of viruses. Learn more in this article on […]

Feb 29, 2012

3 min read

BBB & IRS Spam Campaign

We received so many spam emails about BBB (Better Business Bureau) and IRS (Internal Revenue Service) that we had a closer look at it. The emails come from spoofed addresses, such as alert[at]irs.com, subscriptions[at]irs.com, accounts[at]irs.com, etc. Dear Accountant Officer, Hereby you are notified that your Tax Return Appeal id#[NUMBER] has been REJECTED. If you consider […]

Nov 18, 2011

5 min read

Phishing emails defraud thousands of users every day

What does a phishing email look like? How can you distinguish it from a legitimate one? Here we discuss current examples of phishing emails and ways to avoid becoming a victim of fraud.

Nov 11, 2011

2 min read

Trojan Spy Scam Email Campaign

Within the last days we received a lot of scam emails pretending to originate from the Mazon State Bank, Fedwire (Federal Reserve Wire Network), Hinsdale Bank & Trust Co. and many others. The majority of these emails contained information about a money transfer or the account being disabled. Of course the emails are scam with […]

Oct 11, 2011

3 min read

The Federal Trojan Background and a statement from Emsisoft

The Federal Trojan, also known as the State Trojan or Bavarian Trojan, has been a major domestic policy issue in Germany since early October 2011. The subsequent analysis of parts of this governmental spy program has raised cause for concern. In addition to what appears to be a clear violation of the directives of the […]

Oct 8, 2011

1 min read

Spam email: “Is Steve Jobs Really Dead?”. Beware!

News about the death of Steve Jobs has been exploited by cyber-criminals by sending spam emails associated with this incident. The spam email has a subject like “Steve Jobs: Not Dead Yet!“, “Is Steve Jobs Really Dead?“, “Steve Jobs Alive!“, or “Steve Jobs Not Dead!“. Clicking on the link provided will take the user to […]

Aug 29, 2011

2 min read

Emsisoft warns: Zbot trojan spreads by fake Facebook friend request

Every Facebook user is familiar with the friend invitation via email on Facebook. But you should be careful, as our malware analysis team has detected that this is now a tactic being used to infect users with malicious software. In this case we received a phishing email with the subject “Kaamil Mahmoud wants to be […]

Aug 1, 2011

3 min read

2011 – The renaissance of Ransomware

Everything moves onward and, sadly for you and the other untold millions of honest Internet users, the Malware industry is no exception to this. What began as only a handful of Viruses has developed over time into vast numbers of Trojans, Worms, Phishing attacks and many other types of criminal approaches that endanger the security […]

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Malware Lab

I got a plane ticket from ZeuS!

Open position which you might be interested in

Secure download resources or a malware cesspool – How trustworthy are download portals nowadays?

BBB & IRS Spam Campaign

Phishing emails defraud thousands of users every day

Trojan Spy Scam Email Campaign

The Federal Trojan Background and a statement from Emsisoft

Spam email: “Is Steve Jobs Really Dead?”. Beware!

Emsisoft warns: Zbot trojan spreads by fake Facebook friend request

2011 – The renaissance of Ransomware

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