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Blackhat Europe 2011 Recap—Day 2

Blackhat Europe 2011 Recap—Day 2

Following my recap of the first day of “Blackhat Europe,” here are a couple of choice highlights from day 2: Starting the day, Sebastian Muniz and Alfredo Ortega took the audience... Read More

Posted on April 11th, 2011 | Read More | Be the first to comment

Spam Asks Recipients to Join Jasmine Revolution

Spam Asks Recipients to Join Jasmine Revolution

After the Tunisian Revolution (also called the Jasmine Revolution by many media organizations) in late 2010 or early 2011, “Jasmine” became a hot word in China. Last week, a friend... Read More

Posted on April 8th, 2011 | Read More | Be the first to comment

Blackhat Europe 2011 Recap – Day 1

Blackhat Europe 2011 Recap – Day 1

Its been almost 3 weeks now since Blackhat Europe was held in Barcelona, Spain – and some of Trend Micro’s threat researchers went along to attend the interesting workshops and... Read More

Posted on April 8th, 2011 | Read More | Be the first to comment

Domain Hopping Tactics in Blackhat SEO

Domain Hopping Tactics in Blackhat SEO

Recently, my colleague Ryan Flores wrote about the sudden spike in demand for information that was triggered by the Japan earthquake, and how it was met by cybercriminals with blackhat... Read More

Posted on April 8th, 2011 | Read More | Be the first to comment

How Much Can Today’s Communication Media Be Trusted?

How Much Can Today’s Communication Media Be Trusted?

Today’s social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook can be convenient tools for users to easily get the information they want. Such sites can easily satisfy users’ desire to know more,... Read More

Posted on April 6th, 2011 | Read More | Be the first to comment

Facebook Users Get Invited to a Spam Event

Facebook Users Get Invited to a Spam Event

For sometime now we’ve been reporting threats targeting Facebook users, most of which result in users unknowingly spreading spammy links to their networks. We’ve seen different social engineering techniques used... Read More

Posted on April 4th, 2011 | Read More | Be the first to comment

ZeuS Source Code Already in the Wild

ZeuS Source Code Already in the Wild

For about two weeks now, the ZeuS source code has been making its way around to different people. Many people have been offering it up for sale on multiple forums,... Read More

Posted on March 31st, 2011 | Read More | Be the first to comment

LizaMoon, Etc. SQL Injection Attack Still On-going

LizaMoon, Etc. SQL Injection Attack Still On-going

We’re currently monitoring a still-ongoing mass compromise involving a great number of websites. The compromised sites have been injected with a malicious script that triggers redirects to certain URLs which... Read More

Posted on March 31st, 2011 | Read More | Be the first to comment