Saturday, June 20, 2009

[Lockergnome] Computer Security ~ June 20, 2009

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Tattletale Spam Reveals Malicious File Instead of Gossip

Cyber-criminals are now posing as a tattletale about to reveal something scandalous, as seen in a malicious spam run we've encountered recently.

The spam messages are posed to look similar to an email from YouTube, and arrive with a link, which is supposedly a video posted in the said video-sharing website.

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The message is written in Portuguese and roughly translates to the following:


A friend sent a video to YouTube, the following message:
Open your eyes!
Much admire the way that treats all situations!
Well, I to the chase.
I said I would find a way to prove what I have been told to you many days.
Look at this video!
The two were thinking they had nothing recording were mistaken there is the video of the two transactions recorded in the cell.
You’ll thank me later because I have done it hugs.


Clicking the link triggers the dowload of Video.com, which is actually a worm detected by Trend Micro as WORM_RUNOUCE.G. When installed on a system, WORM_RUNOUCE.G uses its own SMTP engine to send out email messages to the affected users' address book. The said email comes in the following format:

FROM: [email address]
TO: {recipients name}
SUBJECT: {random name} is comming!
Attachment: PP.exe

The attachment PP.exe is a copy of WORM_RUNONCE.G. This places the affected users’ contacts at risk of getting affected by the same malware.

The intriguing nature of the message might just trigger enough curiosity in recipients' minds to get them to open the email, which contains a different kind of malicious material. Both the spam email and malicious file are blocked and detected respectively by the Smart Protection Network.

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Australian Taxpayers Targeted by Phishing Attack

The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is calling the people to start thinking about lodging their 2008-2009 tax returns. And with this significant event on the rise, spammers are using this as a bait to promote phishing mails.

The mail contains a letter stating that it was from ATO. It informs the receiver that he or she is eligible to receive a tax refund. It then asks the recipient to answer the form attached to the mail, click the PRINT button, and then send it to the head office.

Observing the form attached, it uses double extension names: .PDF.HTM which is used to trick the users that they are filling up a PDF file, when it is really an HTML page.

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Further studying the content of the form reveals a part wherein it asks the receiver's account information, and indicates “Please enter your account information where the 568.24 will be debited.” Take note that according to the mail, the user is eligible for a tax refund. However the spammers decided rather to fill the field by themselves.

Furthermore, the form asks for the user's card number and PIN, which should be irrelevant if this is for a tax return.

Once the user completes the form and clicks the PRINT button, a window will appear where the user can specify settings related to the printing process. It may look like a normal process but while the document is being printed, the browser will connect to a site, sending the entered details to a remote website.

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Users should be assured that not only but in special in these times of crisis, criminals will never get tired in making offers about money or other goods masking their true intentions.

The Smart Protection Network blocks both the spam email and the phishing website.

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Friday, June 19, 2009

[Lockergnome] Computer Security ~ June 19, 2009

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