ESET Threat Blog

There are a number of reasons why people should not send or read eCards and the like. I am hard pressed to think of any reasons why people should send them though. So, how about a list of reasons why you should not send or open them.
 
1) Social Engineering. E-ware, as I collectively call them, … Read More…

CISRT issued an advisory about an IM worm. This is a typical worm that you avoid quite simply by not opening attachments in IM, especially when they claim to be Paris Hilton Videos. There is nothing particularly interesting about the worm, but there is something interesting about the write up at http://www.cisrt.org/enblog/read.php?128.
 

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A few weeks ago I did a podcast about a proposal for an “Internet Driver’s License”. All of my podcasts are at http://www.eset.com/podcasts/ and are available as MP3’s as well.
 
I didn’t think the idea of the internet driver’s license would play out well, but I do think that perhaps an “Online Banking License” might be … Read More…

Here’s a great interview with our good friend Professor Richard Ford of FIT on NPR. Discussing the last 25 years of viruses and malware, since the days that Elk Cloner came out on the Apple II, Richard takes you through some great tips for staying secure in today’s malware infested world.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11954260
 
Andrew Lee
Chief Research Officer
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Several years ago when I first saw an e-Card, the first thing that I thought was that these would become a very successful tool for social engineering attacks designed at spreading malicious software. The current wave of “storm worm” spam uses this exact tactic. Emails such as the following are how users are tricked into … Read More…

Last week, we came across a very interesting piece of software that mixes freedom of speech, network security, and religion.  This software is called "e-Jihad" and is freely distributed on the Internet.  This software is used to let the owner of a computer give control of his system to the creator of e-Jihad.  The makers … Read More…

 
Now, why don’t you believe me? If I sent it to 5 million people in an email message many of them would believe it. Pierre-Marc wrote a blog entry this morning http://eset.com/threat-center/blog/?p=69 in which he described one of the latest scams going around. For those of us who work around security, we saw this abuse … Read More…

A lot of people came back to work on Monday thinking they had a lot of new friends.  During the weekend, we observed a very high volume of fake greeting card being sent by e-mail.  Of course, these cards don’t come from anonymous friends but from anonymous malware authors wanting to increase the size of … Read More…

It was a chicken in disguise.
 
On July 1st at 12:41 AM CET ESET became aware of a false positive. Some advertising banners were incorrectly flagged as being infected with the JavaScript trojan JS/Tivso.14a.gen Trojan. By 2:00 AM CET update version 2366 went out, correcting the misdetection. Later ESET researchers discovered that the generic signature covering … Read More…