Update 27/04/2011 15:30 GMTA Spanish user tweet shows he has been charged in his card, his bank has called him after a suspicious charge to Netflix has been done (Netflix is not available in Spain):He has called Sony customer service and has explained it all in his blog (in Spanish, English and French.)************When we talk [...]
28 April 2011
Q: What is PSN?A: It’s the Sony PlayStation Network, an online gaming network.Q: What devices can access it?A: Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3) Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP). You can also use your PSN login on the Sony discussion forums.Q: If I have a Playstation 3, do I also have a PSN account?A: Not necessarily. PS3s and [...]
28 April 2011
Throughout the years we have advised that you should use encryption on your home WI-FI. There are ma y reasons for this, including keeping your data confidential, but not having encryption enabled on your home WI-FI can put you at serious risk of having your doors knocked down and being arrested for downloading child pornography.You [...]
28 April 2011
Not one to let Epsilon or Oak Ridge National Laboratories hog the media spotlight, Sony, a seasoned expert at security blunders such as the famous Sony rootkit, has taken the spotlight for one of the biggest security breaches of all time. Hackers were able to access Sony’s network and according to Sony http://blog.us.playstation.com/2011/04/26/update-on-playstation-network-and-qriocity/ the information [...]
28 April 2011
We have seen countless number of rogue security products for Windows platform however this one is targeted to trick mobile users.The sample masquerades itself as a certain AV for mobile and always reports that it has identified two threats in the mobile and pretends that it has encountered an error while trying to cure. It provides the [...]
28 April 2011
I have been skimming the glut of news stories covering the PlayStation hack following Sony’s statement yesterday. The issues that keeps coming back to me are these: 1. Sony, like any company who keeps customer account details, is responsible for keeping this sensitive data safe. So the question is, How could these details, potentially including [...]
27 April 2011
The WordPress team just released a new version of WordPress (3.1.2) to fix a security issue where contributor-level users were allowed to publish posts. It is a small release, and everyone using WordPress should upgrade to it! From the WordPress site: WordPress 3.1.2 is now available and is a security release for all previous WordPress [...]
27 April 2011
Yesterday, over 40 Blue Coat Web Filter customers went boat shopping on Craigslist.How do I know this? Well, there were 42 requests to a malware domain that was being used in Craigslist ads all over the country. Here’s a sample screenshot:comtominue.com is part of a fake-warez network that normally uses what we call the “fake [...]
27 April 2011
Previously we have written about the “i got u surprise” spam trojan on Facebook. And today, we still discovered another variant. This time, the message that is received by the victim is only “u?” and followed by a link, with the subject is “Hello“.When the link is clicked, will lead to the following address: http://photo-album-#####.##/ [...]
27 April 2011
Scam Signature Message: Look at you:P You gotta love this, I found this video on facebookScam Type: Malware - PhishingTrending: April 2011Why it’s a Scam:Clicking the wall post link takes you to the following page: This page is a phishing site set up by the scammers. Anytime you are redirected from Facebook to another website, always verify that you are still on [...]
27 April 2011
Weekly (kinda daily) malware update. You can track all updates by following our malware_updates category. *If your site has been affected with any of these issues, contact us at support@sucuri.net or visit http://sucuri.net to get help or if you want to share some information with us. Today we started to see a lot of sites [...]
27 April 2011
Users of Sony’s PlayStation Network are at risk of identity theft after hackers broke into the system, and accessed the personal information of videogame players. The implications of the hack, which resulted in the service being offline since last week, are only now becoming clear as Sony has confirmed that the hackers, who broke into [...]
27 April 2011
Communication in the today’s world is dominated by email, instant messaging, and social networking. However, for making any formal statement or announcement, hard-copy letters are still sent using postal services. In both mediums, unwanted, unsolicited letters are not new; however, it may still be surprising if a spam message is sent over using postal services [...]
27 April 2011
The Love Bug. I LOVE YOU. LoveLetter. All different names for one of the world’s most famous viruses, which spread around the globe in May 2000, infecting millions of computers and clogging up email systems.If you have an interest in IT and were around at the time, you’ll surely remember it. But if you don’t, [...]
27 April 2011
In continuation of our support for the takedown activities on the Win32/Afcore botnet, we are releasing a second edition of MSRT in April. This edition includes variants of Afcore released by the criminals behind it at approximately the same time as the previous edition of MSRT. While MSRT has traditionally been released on the second [...]
27 April 2011
Scam Signature Message: My Top Profile Viewers: See who views your profile @Scam Type: Malware - Profile PeekerTrending: April 2011Why it’s a Scam:Clicking the wall post link takes you to the following page: Over 70,000 Facebook users have been victimized by this scam so far! Never, ever copy and paste code directly into your browser. You bypass security controls built into your [...]
27 April 2011
These are allegedly German companies, but: They are all very recently registered (4th and 17th April 2011) The registrar is in China (BIZCN.COM) The web host is in Romania In each case a Yahoo email address has been used The host is “Enter Net Team” / “Power Host” in Romania. Blocking 86.55.96.0/23 is a quick [...]
26 April 2011
Implicated in malware distribution, botnet C&Cs and spam, the network range 62.122.72.0/21 (62.122.72.0 - 62.122.79.255) is currently quite active in evil activities (you can find examples here and here and the SiteVet report here). There aren’t many sites in this block, and they are almost all either in 62.122.73.0/24 and 62.122.75.0/24 (but blocking the /21 is safer).. [...]
26 April 2011
Today is the 25th anniversary of the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, which resulted in the world’s worst nuclear accident.Vigils have been held to commemorate the disaster, where an explosion and fire released a large cloud of radioactive contamination into the air, spreading over much of Western Russia and Europe.No doubt the anniversary [...]
26 April 2011
The Washington Times has published a long article on companies that develop backdoors and trojans for governmental use. The article got started after we broke the news on the connections between Gamma Technologies, Elaman GmbH and the Egypt Government.Photo by F-Secure GmbHIt’s more than unsettling to realize there are large companies out there developing backdoors, [...]
26 April 2011
We have seen many fake security products and fake disk utilities targeting the windows platform. Of late, we have started observing an increasing trend in mobile platform too. Following on the heels of the FakeAV product sample, here is an application that masquerades as the Opera mini browser for mobile devices.This Trojan claims to install [...]
26 April 2011
Kian Egan, a singer with the Irish boyband Westlife, has been forced to deny that he is leaving the chart-topping pop group after statements were posted on his Twitter account. Egan had over 60,000 followers on Twitter, and the news would surely have plucked the heartstrings of his many young female fans: it took my [...]
26 April 2011
The Sony PlayStation Network, used by millions of online videogame players around the world, has been offline since Wednesday 20th April. You can still play games offline, but if you want to connect your PlayStation to play online games, stream movies, or go shopping you’re out of luck. According to Sony, who have been updating [...]
26 April 2011
Iranian officials today claimed to have intercepted a cyberwarfare attack, involving malware designed to spy upon government systems. The malware has been dubbed the “Stars” virus by Gholamreza Jalali, the head of Iran’s civil defence organisation, who broke the news on the institution’s website. Jalali says that the Stars virus continues to be investigated by [...]
26 April 2011
