Saturday, February 13, 2010

[Lockergnome] Computer Security ~ February 13, 2010

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Searches for Super Bowl News and Bill Cosby's Supposed Death Lead to FAKEAV

It is that time of the year once again for football enthusiasts and sports fanatics alike with the latest season of Super Bowl. The Super Bowl is one of the U.S. television broadcasting industry's top-rating shows, drawing thousands of live viewers each game. This year, according to Nielsen, 106.5 million viewers reportedly watched the games, some 24 percent of whom, according to Mashable, watched online.

This is probably why cybercriminals take advantage of the show's popularity, trying to lure unsuspecting fans via blackhat search engine optimization (SEO) techniques. This is, of course, no longer new, it has happened before but that did not stop cybercriminals from using the same tactics again to push a FAKEAV to online viewers.

Trend Micro threat analysts found that searching for "Super Bowl 44 airtime" in Google led to results that redirected users to malicious sites that claim to contain the information they are looking for.

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Upon clicking the link, a prompt alerts users of supposed malware infections, an all-too-familiar tactic rogue antivirus peddlers use to sell their malicious wares.

Also, apart from exploiting an attention-grabbing sports event, cybercriminals have taken advantage of another actor's supposed death—that of comedian, Bill Cosby—to propagate the exact same FAKEAV variant detected by Trend Micro as TROJ_FAKEAL.SMDP.

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As in previously featured blackhat SEO attacks, users face the same risks yet again, including credit card theft:

Trend Micro™ Smart Protection Network™ protects product users from these threats by blocking user access to malicious sites and detecting and preventing the download of harmful binary files such as packupdate_build7_195.exe aka TROJ_FAKEAL.SMDP.

Non-Trend Micro product users, on the other hand, can also stay protected by using free tools such as Web Protection Add-On.

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Friday, February 12, 2010

[Lockergnome] Computer Security ~ February 12, 2010

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Obfuscating .NET: Protecting your code from prying eyes: Did you know you actually ship your source code every time you distribute a .NET assembly? One of the consequences of the architecture of .NET is that a great deal of information about an assembly is kept with the assembly in a part of the file called the Manifest. This information makes it remarkably easy to not just reverse engineer the assembly, but to decompile it, make modifications, then recompile it. While such reverse... [Click Here to Download]

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Yahoo! Literati Buddy: Don't you just hate it when you play (the oddly Scrabble-like game) Literati on Yahoo! and people cream you with words you didn't know were words? Especially those two-letter ones that score big points because they happen to intersect with about a dozen that were already there and you're pretty sure they're not even English (if you are, indeed, playing in English). Don't get frustrated. Don't pull out your hair. Don't burn your dictionary. Get... [Click Here to Download]

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