Author Archives: Jovi Umawing
2011: The Year that was for Facebook and Online Threats
CommTouch, an Internet security service provider, has recently released their Internet Threats Trend Report for 2011. In this report, they have highlighted and analyzed the various threats on Facebook that had plagued users for the past year, such as social …
Phishers Are Back to Target Chase Clients
Robert Stetson, one of our malware researchers at the AV Labs, found a new phishing scam in the wild. The scam arrives as an email that directs users to the URL, data-server(dot)host(dot)org/email/protect/chase/. click to enlarge After Chase clients provide their …
“Curious Who’s Stalking You?” – Yes, We’ve Heard It Before
This social media “stalking” thing, to the best of my knowledge, all began on MySpace. We’ve seen them emerge on Twitter, too: our friends at Sophos wrote a so-called “app” that Twitter purportedly released to track a user’s stalker. Only …
Blackhole Exploit Hones in on Amazon Users
Last week, our friends at ThreatPost posted about the ever-growing infection of websites hosting Black Hole Exploit Kits. A Black Hole exploit takes advantage of unpatched Windows operating systems. It also targets other software, such as Java and Adobe Reader, that can be …
New Facebook Worm in the Wild
Our friends at CSIS, a Danish security company, has spotted a worm spreading within the Facebook platform. In a recent news article penned by Peter Kruse, the worm is said to be “a classic” one in terms of how it infects Internet …
FakeScanti Rogue Hijacks HOSTS Files
Patrick, our resident rogue AV expert from the AV Labs, have his eyes set on one particular family—FakeScanti. This rogue family first appeared in the first quarter of 2010, and it has been within the radar ever since. Enter AV …
"Rogue Browsers Will Make a Comeback on the Mobile Platform."
We’ve seen it here first: YapBrowser has risen after being declared dead five years ago—and this discovery is by Chris Boyd himself just a day before he presented at VB 2011 to discuss about rogue browsers, of which YapBrowser is. If …
October Threats Bank on User Inexperience and Carelessness
This is what GFI Software Senior Threat Researcher Christopher Boyd has revealed on Thursday, November 10, after the release of VIPRE Antivirus 2012 in the US and UK. He continues: “They count on users being too excited by an exclusive offer …
PDF Malware is Back in Season
Avid readers of the GFI Labs blog can attest that they’re no strangers to this kind of attack: one receives an email purporting to have come from a legitimate company with an attached Adobe .PDF file claiming that it’s either …
S.N.A.P. Scam Will Make You Snap
It’s no real surprise when we see how scammers ply their tricks online in order to dupe practically anyone. They leave no room for distinction with regard to who they target. And why would they? When it comes to online fraud, everyone …
