After a relative low virus detection for more than a week, MX Lab started to intercepted a new virus outbreak of Bredolab in emails regarding a Western Union money transfer. The malware is named Bredolab.gen.a…
MX Lab intercepts emails with an embedded URL that leads to a web site where you will have the notice “You don’t have the latest version of Macromedia Flash Player.” and you can download the…
MX Lab detected a spam campaign where Twitter is being abused by spammers to promote online drug stores. The campaign is sent from random spoofed email addresses and has similar subjects like: 7U1 An amazing…
Between October 27 and November 09th, 2009, MX Lab has noticed a large amount of viruses. Bredolab, distributed by the Cutwail botnet, was responsible for the majority of viruses during this period. After a few…
Social networks are often subject to phishing and today MySpace is the target. MX Lab intercepted some messages from MySpace <message-*********@message.myspace.com> - where * stands for random letter and number combination. The from address is…
MX Lab intercepted a large amount of emails with the subject “DHL Tracking Number 3YMH6JJY” containing the trojan TrojanDownloader:Win32/Cutwail.gen!C (Microsoft), Trojan.Kobka.E (GData), AVG (SHeur2.BQSN() or Troj/Agent-LQA (Sophos). The contents of the email: Dear customer! The courier…
Yesterday MX Lab reported regarding a phishing email that has no URL but instead an attached HTML document with a web form included. Since then we see more similar cases and also PayPal is subject to…
In almost every phish email there is an URL leading to the phishingsite where you are asked for a login, password and other personal information. With the latest phish targeting Banca Agricola Popolare di Ragusa…
Apparently, the virus campaigns are far from over. MX Lab reported on this blog regarding the latest virus campaign that would be an attempt to grow the Cutwail botnet by infecting new computer systems by…
Several sources reported a surge of the Bredolab trojan in the middle of October but MX Lab did noticed an real increase on October 27th. The following graph shows the virus detection from October 7th…
