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Symantec Protection for Targeted Attacks in South Asia
ESET recently blogged about a targeted cyber/espionage attack that appears to be originating from India. Multiple security vendors have been tracking this campaign. The attack appears to be no more...
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Symantec Protection for Trojan.FakeSafe
Today, Trend Micro published a report about a targeted attack campaign they’re calling SafeNet (the campaign’s name is unrelated to the security company of the same name). The group behind this...
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Operation Hangover: Q&A on Attacks
Today Norman and the Shadowserver Foundation released a joint detailed report dubbed Operation Hangover, which relates to a recently released ESET blog about a targeted cyber/espionage attack that...
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Spammers Make Memorial Day Memorable
Memorial Day is celebrated on May 27 and it is a day for memorializing the men and women who have died in military service for the United States. It is a common practice for cybercriminals to take...
View ArticleWhy Email is a Key to Your Castle
Having control over an email account can be a lot of power, even though most people would probably say they do not care if someone else is reading their private emails. But it’s not always about...
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Spammers Targeting Oklahoma Tornado Victims
Natural disasters, like tornadoes and earthquakes, are quite common in the United States of America. Unfortunately, the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore experienced a violent tornado on Monday, May 20,...
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Phishers’ New Fake Social Media Apps
Phishers are trying everything they can to improve their chances of harvesting user credentials. They are known for experimenting with different fake social media applications in a desperate move to...
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Rise in URL Spam
Symantec is observing an increase in spam containing URLs. On May 16, URL spam volume increased by 12% from 84% to 96% and since then the URL spam volume fluctuated between 95% and 99%. That means 95%...
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Downloader.Liftoh Cousin to W32.Phopifas?
Downloader.Liftoh is a Trojan horse detected by Symantec that downloads malware onto the compromised computer without the user noticing.A new variant of this threat, discovered in early May, was...
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Whitewashed Spam – How Antispam Laws Are Helping Spammers
Contributor: Binny KuriakoseAnonymity disguised as freedom of expression and lack of clear cut laws makes cyberspace murky from a security point of view. Countries are waking up and realizing that...
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South Korean Financial Companies Targeted by Castov
The financial malware landscape is constantly evolving, cybercriminals are becoming more knowledgeable about the financial sector, and attacks are becoming more sophisticated. We’ve recently released a...
View ArticleMusic is a Turn-On for Malware
We’ve all heard a really annoying song on the radio on the way to the supermarket and then are shocked and ashamed to find ourselves humming the tune while perusing the frozen foods isle. All it takes...
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Phishers Pretend to Be Turkish Police in Facebook Security Scam
Contributor: Avdhoot PatilPhishers have continued to focus on social networking sites as a platform for their phishing activities. Symantec is familiar with various phishing campaigns related to social...
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Bitcoins Still a Hot Security Topic
Interest in Bitcoin—the decentralized digital currency—is definitely growing. But as with anything established, it also sparks the interest of scammers. We have seen a few Trojans stealing Bitcoin...
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Waledac Reloaded: Trojan.Rloader.B
Recently, we blogged about systems compromised by W32.Virut that were observed downloading W32.Waledac.D (Kelihos). Symantec has followed the Waledac evolution for a number of years and have observed...
View ArticleSymantec Protections for TravNet
Today, Kaspersky published a paper titled “The NeTTraveler (aka ‘TravNeT’).” The paper provides analysis on a targeted attack campaign that is targeting various organizations worldwide, such as...
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Citadel’s Defenses Breached
Contributor: Piotr KrysiukOn June 5, Microsoft announced that they had worked together with members of the financial services industry and the FBI to disrupt the operations of a banking Trojan horse...
View ArticleWhat to Wear
Many high-tech companies are researching wearable technologies, i.e. things that you can wear and help to make your life easier. Probably causing the biggest stir in the technology community recently...
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Backdoor.Tranwos Abuses EFS to Prevent Forensic Analysis
Recently, we discovered a threat that abuses the Encrypting File System (EFS), which Symantec detects as Backdoor.Tranwos. Not only is it trivial for program code to use EFS, it’s also very effective...
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Dragon Boat Festival: Now Driving Away Spam Too
The Dragon Boat Festival, also known as the Duanwu Festival, is an important traditional holiday that has been celebrated by Chinese people as well as other people in East Asian societies for nearly...
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