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• Italy: Prime Minister Subject of Spam?

  Spammers have used the recent political controversy that surrounds the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to lure and trap Italian speaking people via an email spam (see Figure 1 and Figure 2). Italian people who love gossip about public people... Posted Jun 29 2009, 05:42 AM by Rossano Ferraris with | with no comments Tags: antimalware, Anti-Spyware, Anti-Virus, CA, CA Anti-Spyware Scorecard, CA Anti-Virus, internet threats, IRCBot, malware, Passwords, rossano, Rossano Ferraris, Silvio Berlusconi, social networking, spam, spyware, worm

• Barack Obama wins and cybercrime too

  It was just a question of hours -after the election of the new President of the United States of America Barack Obama- and cyber criminals very quickly implemented another malicious activity on the web. Anti cyber-crime community research has witnessed... Posted Nov 06 2008, 12:52 PM by Rossano Ferraris with | with no comments Tags: antimalware, antispam, anti-spam, Anti-Spyware, antivirus, Anti-Virus, attack, Barack, CA, CA Anti-Spam, cyber crime, malicious, malware, Obama, rossano, Rossano Ferraris, spyware, trojans

• Reshipping scam: a new cyber-criminal trend?

  Are you looking for a new job? What about getting $2000 monthly working at home? You just only need to follow some of our directions and a good compensation is waiting for you… Attractive job? Yes probably, but what is behind it? It seems cyber-criminals... Posted Oct 22 2008, 05:31 AM by Rossano Ferraris with | with 2 comment(s) Tags: antispam, anti-spam, Anti-Spyware, Anti-Virus, CA, CA Anti-Spam, cyber crime, phishing, rossano, Rossano Ferraris, spam, Vulnerabilities, vulnerability

• We call it RANSOMWARE: look out!

  The problem is not a new one; however, the research community has found a new variant of the fearful GPCODE malware. To be precise, we call it "ransomware" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ransomware_%28malware%29 ). The new GPCODE variant uses... Posted Jun 09 2008, 04:35 PM by Rossano Ferraris with | with 2 comment(s) Tags: Anti-Spyware, Anti-Virus, CA, internet, ransomware, Rossano Ferraris, spyware

• Compromised websites: a real danger for Internet users

  It seems Internet users do not have any peace anymore. We have witnessed a lot of security issues on the Internet to date but never like this latest period, which can be named -to my personal perspective- as “the age of compromised websites”. The Anti... Posted May 28 2008, 12:23 PM by Rossano Ferraris with | with 2 comment(s) Tags: Anti-Spyware, attack, CA, internet, Rossano Ferraris, security, spyware, Vulnerabilities, vulnerability

• The Anatomy and Deception of a Malicious URL

  In this article I promise deception, technological trickery, impart a bit of knowledge, insight, and all through what I hope to be an interesting read for you. I was browsing through a long list of malicious URL's and I came across an interesting... Posted Mar 26 2008, 06:00 PM by Mark Wade with | with 4 comment(s) Tags: Anti-Spyware

• USB drives infected? A quick analysis

  by Rossano Ferraris Interestingly the new year 2008 opened its doors with a surprising news in the malware field. Hardware infected? Yes, again malware guys have showed their extraordinary fantasy to spread panic and disasters over the computer world... Posted Feb 04 2008, 01:48 PM by Rossano Ferraris with | with 5 comment(s) Tags: Anti-Spyware, Anti-Virus, attack, hardware infection, Rossano Ferraris, security, usb infection

• Internet searches under attack: next in series

  by Rossano Ferraris Another interesting case I would like to bring to your attention is the effect of the so-called “fake-codec” trojans. Here is what I figured out after searching the phrase “daily dawn” on the Google search engine. The screenshot reflects... Posted Jan 15 2008, 11:40 AM by Rossano Ferraris with | with 3 comment(s) Tags: advertising, Anti-Spyware, attack, CA, codec, fake codec, fake updates, rogue security software, Rossano Ferraris, spyware, user permission, video codec, Vulnerabilities

• Internet searches under attack

  by Rossano Ferraris Users are being infected with malware from a variety of sources. Unfortunately, malware authors are continually refining their technique. As I will show in this write-up, clicking on the results from innocent searches, like looking... Posted Jan 09 2008, 05:30 PM by Rossano Ferraris with | with 2 comment(s) Tags: advertising, Anti-Spyware, Anti-Virus, attack, CA, internet, rogue security software, Rossano Ferraris, searches, security, spyware

• Follow-up: Facebook's Response

  In addition to the statement we received this past Friday, we have received further communications from Facebook's privacy department, this time directly addressing the silent data transfer to facebook.com. Hi Stefan, Thanks for clarifying your concerns... Posted Dec 03 2007, 07:43 PM by Benjamin Googins with | with 2 comment(s) Tags: advertising, Anti-Spyware, beacon, cookies, facebook

• Facebook SocialAds – Going Too Far?

  “Creepy”, “stupid”, and “a violation of privacy” are a few ways people have described Facebook’s new advertising system. Facebook Ads introduce both a privacy concern and an annoyance factor, and give the user only marginal control over the annoyance... Posted Nov 29 2007, 02:59 PM by Benjamin Googins with | with 7 comment(s) Tags: Anti-Spyware, spyware

• Be aware of fake Microsoft Updates

  by Rossano Ferraris The other day spammers spread two interesting emails to users throughout the Internet and attempted to make users believe these emails originated from Microsoft. The emails contained an alert that advised users of an undiscovered vulnerability... Posted Nov 27 2007, 08:25 AM by Rossano Ferraris with | with 1 comment(s) Tags: Anti-Spyware, fake updates, spyware, Vulnerabilities

• E-jihad cyber attack is back: rumours or a serious threat?

  by Rossano Ferraris Bin Laden's cyber legions are fighting back? It is a bit hard to understand what comes out from cyber-criminal minds but what is sure is that once we hear about e-jihad, security researchers are requested to keep their eyes very... Posted Nov 25 2007, 05:28 AM by Rossano Ferraris with | with no comments Tags: Anti-Spyware, attack, e-jihad, spyware

• Web of Deception

  Just how dangerous is the Internet? We have all heard stories about Government websites being hacked, financial banking scams and malware that encrypts your data and holds it hostage. Did you know that just owning a computer and having it online puts... Posted Nov 07 2007, 04:33 PM by Mark Wade with | with 5 comment(s) Tags: Anti-Spyware

• Ghosts and Ghouls

  A famous quotation from the The Art of War is "If you know both yourself and your enemy, you will come out of one hundred battles with one hundred victories." A malware author following the principles of Sun Tzu might say "If you know both... Posted Oct 31 2007, 04:57 PM by Alain Zidouemba with | with no comments Tags: Anti-Spyware, Anti-Virus, Vulnerabilities