Aug 29, 2010 2 min read Aug 29, 2010 Malware Lab Security Essentials. NOT ! Rogue Security products are constantly submitted to us by our customers and researchers for analysis, and carrying on our little analysis report of something interesting we come across while doing those analyses. This week our research lab got to meet a rogue product faking itself to be Microsoft’s security product, Microsoft Security Essentials. Let us […]
Aug 20, 2010 3 min read Aug 20, 2010 Malware Lab Rogue Antivirus. Again? We blogged about Antivirus2010 and tried to find out a little more than what normal analysis could have done. Our series of exposing latest rogue security product variants continue this week with another of its kind, Security Suite. Back in 2008 with AntivirusXP and then with few others, a trend started in rogues which were […]
Aug 9, 2010 2 min read Aug 9, 2010 Malware Lab antivirus2010, userinit and then some more There is a new rogue variant making rounds going by the name Antivirus2010. The malware copies itself to the System32 directory with a name similar to commonly used Windows file present in same directory. If looked through naked eye, there seems to exist two userinit.exe though one has a unique icon and the other doesn’t. […]
Aug 1, 2010 2 min read Aug 1, 2010 Malware Lab Fake Facebook worm spreading through Yahoo, IRC In between email spams, twitter, facebook let us not forget one of the most prevalent medium a malware can spread around. Messengers have always been a popular medium for malware propagation and we at Emsisoft Labs recently came across worm like behavior attempting to spread through Yahoo! Messenger. The initial picture is not too unfamiliar […]
Jul 28, 2010 4 min read Jul 28, 2010 Malware Lab Windows 7 is not safe. yet. There have been quite a few security incident related to usb/flash drives and autorun behaviors. Since thee usage and portability of such vectors are advantageous to users, it was just a matter of time to be exploited by malware authors. A new threat, recently discovered, is getting some attention and we at Emsisoft wanted to […]
Jul 21, 2010 2 min read Jul 21, 2010 Malware Lab That video post in Craigslist! Craigslist is one of the most popularly visited website, and malware authors are always on the lookout for such vectors for their own interest. A message like below have been circulating around in craigslist I just want to make sure i am going to buy the same which i am looking for. I can’t afford […]
Jul 14, 2010 4 min read Jul 14, 2010 Security Alerts Backgrounds of the current Twitter Spam mails increase Most Internet users know of Twitter. It is a free service that allows the creation and following of short text messages, like a kind of “World Wide Web TXT”. A lot of private persons, but even huge companies use Twitter. Yes, Twitter is well known and a shining light of the Internet and its possibilities. […]
Jul 8, 2010 2 min read Jul 8, 2010 Malware Lab IRS and AcroIEHelper! We have been continuously stressing on the importance of malicious attacks through social networks and social engineering methods. Social Carriers like Facebook, Twitter and Social Engineering catalysts like Internet browsers are under constant threat and malware authors are always trying their part to create different kinds of attacks through these vectors. Recent spam related distributions […]
Jun 30, 2010 1 min read Jun 30, 2010 Malware Lab Browsers, and increasing threats. How many times have you been infected while browsing, or to ask a simpler question how many times you have actually thought that your browser may be the root cause of many a security problems you have in your system? The malware authors are always on the look out to find the easiest way to […]
Jun 17, 2010 3 min read Jun 17, 2010 Malware Lab Facebook, Twitter and more spams There seems to be no end for the circulation of twitter spams, and now the malware authors have started trying various strategies to bring similar consequences. We blogged last week about the increasing twitter spam, and installation of rogue security softwares alongwith other malwares. Ofcourse the malware authors did not stop trying , and we […]
